Stone dead silence indeed. Shocked silence is how I would rather put it. I am no database expert, but I can say this much, the message referred to can only be described as grossly offensive, containing language that would get a deletion and the writer excluded from the reflector, or if delivered face to face would result at the very minimum in a blazing row.
The technicalities of the matter are outside my knowledge, I don’t join in technical discussions about such matters, but I know to a nicety when a line has been crossed, so I am closing this thread before it, too, descends into bar room language.
Brian