Allen, none of us would have known about your e-mail if you hadn't posted about it here. Whether he overtly threatened you, or said nasty things to you, or offered to send you a fruitcake, it was still an e-mail. I was definitely taking sides in this argument (about the validity of this thread), but I was trying to inject a little light humor, that's all. Don't assume that nobody cares, btw. Some of us simply disagree with your approach.
Oh, btw, Yanow posted here yesterday. Duh.