"I have said I would refrain from engaging him on this thread because of his thinly veiled threat to involve management, thus I have not pinged him. "
I threatened nothing, Protagoras. I said I would not take it kindly if you continued to malign me. I would not. However, unless you egregiously break the rules of FR, I would not "involve management."
You are quite wrong about me. You don't believe that, and that's just fine. But you are still wrong about me.
You have anything to say to me, say it in private, I don't trust you for a second.