@Meg OK, good point. How about this, I will refrain from explicitly wishing a disease on the guy (I should talk, I'm not too far from an alcohol-induced illness myself) and will apologize to him for doing so, because if he did get a disease and then posted about it here, I'd feel bad.
But insofar as he keeps being a sarcastic turd towards me, I will give it to him right back, because I'm in that kind of mood.
How's that for transactional forum ethics? I swear I don't want to keep posting here, but I'm the kind of person who obsesses over small slights and can't give it a rest until I've made a response. In other words I guess I fit in perfectly here.