<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">You’re right - putting “respectfully” in front of something doesn’t make it respectful. Thanks for recognizing this.<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Dec 19, 2025, at 3:37 PM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz@oracle.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<div>
<font face="monospace" size="4">There's no call for this, and
putting "respectfully" on front of it doesn't make it respectful.
Eric has been unfailingly constructive, polite, and measured in
this thread. (In fact, all but one of the participants on this
thread have been.) <br>
</font><br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/19/2025 1:59 PM, Robert Engels
wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:3E46B558-0957-4AD3-AB58-E444E7056174@me.com">Respectfully,
can you give it a rest.</blockquote>
<br>
<br>
</div>
</div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>