I should keep my mouth shut...

 I should, but I just can't stand rudeness. It's where all my problems on the list emanated from, and now on another list...I just cannot deal with it. And everybody has an excuse for it. I don't care if the other person is rude first, (in this case, I think it just sounded that way because the person apparently doesn't speak English as their native tongue) it doesn't make it right to be rude in return. Not in public, at any rate. If people want to act like alley cats, do it in private.

Not saying, of course, that there isn't a time and a place to take the gloves off, but not right out of the gate. And you don't say something and then lock the gates so there can be no response or explanation.

Obviously I need to go back to working on my chapters and focus on that mess...