I never got a feel for ending conversations where reply meets reply meets reply, unless someone formally declares an end (well done.) I admit a deeper online neurosis, but not exactly a narcissistic one: I have an irrational anxiety people will think I do not read their replies to me until/unless I respond in turn, so the process can (and often does) continue indefinitely. Usually with Isaac and Legolas, where I get the most nervous because with their comments tend to be sufficiently complex and well reasoned responding with anything more than "acknowledged" is not a five word/second job.

In most of the current cases though the people and topics to whom I responded can be relied upon for stimulating (if not necessarily productive) discussion regardless of a few months elapsing. Trayvon Martin has not gone away, for example, and we have been arguing about the VRAs value for roughly half a century (so far....) Beyond that it as much thinking out loud as anything, since almost no one else will notice anyway. One a few months of lifes diversions confirmed is I was never exactly "holding back" RAFO, just as trivial as the bulk of it. Again, I would necro less (and less noticeably) if anyone else posted.

Rest assured though, if there was ever a time I needed validation from the internet (or thought so) it is long past, but your concern is noted and appreciated.