Give the poor guy a break.
This thread was first posted at 9:37am, and your post number 367 at 11:08am, a mere 91 minutes later, makes a response rate of 4.03 posts per minute, or nearly one response every 15 seconds, nearly all of which are directed to him.
If he took five minutes to draft a response to a single post, he'd find himself 20 posts behind by the time he submitted it.
Hey that was my first reaction too, (I posted as much) but now that he is responding, he had failed to address even a few of the earliest and I think very reasonable questions. Still a lot of sucking up,rather than getting down to the substance, he asked for.