Thomas Dalton writes:
Just go through the emails on this subject from
members of the board
and from Mike, and many of them say, very explicitly, that they did
not know about this under hearing from The Register.
You use the word "this" -- a singular indicative pronoun -- when the
Register story includes many things. Your imprecision here possibly
explains the incorrectness of certain inferences you have made
elsewhere.
--Mike