You win The V Forum award for Gentlemanly behavior. In my humble opinion, you tone is model netiquette.
Reminds me of John Walter Wayland’s ”True Gentleman”, the text of which follows:
”The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, ...
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