(May 23, 2014 at 12:38 pm)Chas Wrote: Well, I never made a request - polite or not - I expressed my opinion of the way it works.
Yes you did; and the Staff, as well as regular grassroot members, who responded thus far expressed their opinions, alongside more specific technical reasons.
(May 23, 2014 at 12:38 pm)Chas Wrote: And I read MS's response as dismissive.
Personally I read it as informative, of the very thing you asked about. It was only dismissive in the sense of explaining why the answer's no.
(May 23, 2014 at 12:38 pm)Chas Wrote: I was looking for a discussion about why it is the way it is.
That's fine. How do you see this discusion progressing?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
