I think that is a stupid position to take
I thought, when first joining, that that is an attack on the person, so a personal attack. But it appears not.
For what it is worth, since it can only be that person being attacked in my view for taking that position, I would term that as personal.
But it seens that gransnet and lots of other people dont see that in the same way.
If a friend or family member or neighbour or even say a shopworker or whoever did that a couple of times to me, I dont see how anyone could not think that is personal.
Yet on an internet forum[no idea if that is the case on many of them], that is deemed not to be personal.
It is a shame, in my opinion, that standards on the internet are so much lower than anywhere else.
Or is that me just leading a sheltered life again?