No, this is not the place for a flamefest.
What was the half-researched junk I said about Sicilian? The Ethnologue agrees with me as to the number of speakers.
Also, perhaps it didn't occur to you that "decent editor" refers to contributions to the community, and not just posts on the ML?
Also, since you get e-mails from the list in digest format, I would ask that in the future, you please trim them in your replies.
--node