I don’t think that, just on principle, there ought to be changes from open to caucus five hours after a thread is started:
1) Thread is posted
2) Discussion ensues
3) Five hours later the thread is converted to “caucus”
4) Discussion is purged
That’s no way to run a railroad.
Ordinarily I would agree with you. But in this case, the poster made a good faith effort to post it as a caucus but didn’t know how and sent me a Freepmail which I did not see until the damage was already done. It was my fault, not his. So I cleaned up my mess, not yours.