Ignore Duke - he's a cantankerous PIA anyway
Seriously (seriously, ignore Duke) its one of the disadvantages of being online and not having a face to face with someone is that it gets harder to tell when someone is breaking stones. And while I don't want to make an excuse for it this is also winter
Flip side of the coin, some new people jump in and want to go from Noob to Sharpie in 20 posts per day and ask, and even demand people give up their best info to people they have never met...
Its a balance thing... In the end, probably good to not to get too upset about it as it is just the Internet. It is a tool (for tools
) that will help you, let you meet similar minded folk ()lot of that goes on here), and it is one of those places where you will get out what you put in...