For the record, I should have made it clear to both catocom and to anyone voting in that poll that I was reserving the right to not necessarily abide by the results of the poll. It didn't occur to me at the time, and now my mistake has caused some bad feelings, and for that, I am truly sorry. I did not intent to mislead anyone; I just obviously wasn't thinking. Again, I apologize.
On the other hand, I maintain that I informed catocom of the exact wordings of the poll message and options prior to posting that thread. It was my idea originally (the proposed merger), and after discussing it with catocom, he suggested having a poll about it (which I would have done anyway), and I said I would write up a draft and submit it to him. I did this. He replied to my draft with an indication that it was OK to post. So I don't know where the confusion is on this point. I have just reviewed the PMs, I have saved copies of them, and I still don't understand what the problem is.
The only other point to make here is that I never said, claimed, or implied that there was any affiliation between Thread Wonders and JJR512.com. The only thing I ever said about it was when I mentioned in the poll that I was proposing a merger, thus the point of the poll.