On 20/04/2008, Mike Godwin wrote:
Thanks for the attempt at constructive criticism.
I disagree with it,
however -- I think "this great progress report" (thanks!) couldn't
have been "coughed up" without first learning the extent to which some
of the interrogators here were misunderstanding the FAQ. And that
probably means that 10 messages (although maybe not these particular
10) were necessary regardless.
As you may have noticed, you're dealing with querulous geeks who
don't
know how not to split hairs down to the Planck limit. "Assume good
faith" applies here, in its transformation as "never assume malice
when crippling social ineptitude will suffice."
I was perfectly satisfied with
the report that Mike "coughed up," but
then I wasn't particularly worried about security in the first place.
The querulous don't just need to split hairs, they also want to dissect
coughed-up hair balls to get at them. :-)
Some of them might be happy if the US Dept. of Homeland Security were
involved. Then we could remind them that Alexandria is on the seacoast
and Homeland Security has a proven lack of ability to deal with floods.
Ec