Jacob, I am the only one replying to your replies to me (and no one is voting me up). I choose to take that as a sign that this thread is insufficiently interesting to sufficient numbers of LWers for me to continue.

Note that doing so is not a norm of this community although I would like it if it were and it was IIRC one of the planks or principles of a small movement on Usenet in the 1990s or very early 2000s.