Frankly, you sound like like a smug, arrogant, self-important little twit that's trying to gloat, so how about you quit trying to come off as some perfect paragon of human virtue and just let the subject drop?
How is it arrogant to expect people to have the common decency to check that they know what their talking about before claiming others are wrong or accusing them of double-talking sophistry. 
To me thats just part of the basic forum etiquette.
Ah, and more of the self-righteous indignation. Wonderful.
And, since you're either every bit as ignorant as you've accused me of being or just acting that way so you can keep pretending you're a perfect, special little snowflake, I'll lay out for you exactly why I was justified in making that accusation.
The statement I was remarking on was Lethe's assertion that Astral Hazing does not specify how the spells are affected, which it, in fact, does. That is, they are treated as if being cast into a Rating -4 Background Count. The rules in Street Magic may be unclear on the exact effect of an active casting heading into a Background Count, but that is not due to any lack of clarity on the part of Astral Hazing. Saying otherwise because it requires a small level of inference to make the connection between the incoming spells and the character's BCG is sophistry, pure and simple,
Said comment about a lack of a solid definition was then immediately followed by an assertion that Lethe's own interpretation of the situation (i.e. that spells being actively cast into the Background Count are treated the same as a sustained spell being walked in) is the definitive answer to the problem. Such a juxtaposition of positions is double-talk in the political sense... although I will admit 'hypocrisy' may have been a better choice of words.
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Really though, now that I've been thinking on it a while, I honestly don't see why the way an existing Mana-construct like a Ward is altered by a Background Count has any sort of definitive bearing on active casting. My original assertion, that any spell cast on the character with Astral Hazing counts as if the caster were in a Rating 4 Domain, also has validity, since a mystical link has to be established to the target before the spell can be enacted. With Hazing, the far end of the link is experiencing interference from the Domain similar to what the Magician would have to deal with the interference if
they were standing in the Domain and
the target were in a Zero Background area, thus creating the same result.
Of course there's also Options 3 and 4, given that Astral Hazing is a Negative Quality, which is that the Aspect of the Rating 4 Domain actually gives a 4 point
boost to incoming magic designed to harm the character, either in the form of a Magic boost to the caster or by upping the final effect by 4 Force.
I should thank you for the gloating. If you hadn't pissed me off by trying to kick me when I was down and got me looking things over again I might have actually walked away from this thinking I was truly in the wrong, instead of realizing that there are, in fact, several equally valid ways to interpret Astral Hazing.
