I feel some confidence that with him working with Bruce many of our concerns will be addressed.  Hopefully all of them.

Sidebar, thank you for cc'ing me on some of the emails addressing issues I raised.  I've tried to reply but I have my mail set to sendmail from my box and your (and Andy's) mail host rejects that.  I probably can get it to bounce through my provider but last time I did that there was some contention (it did not like my GPG sig attached!) and most commicant's hosts do not have a problem with SMTP from my desktop.

I'm quite busy for the next few days but this is another potential article topic appropos for ipw -
openness vs spam; break SMTP to stop spam by creating greater and lesser castes of machines or follow the equal-peers protocol design of the internet.   This discussion would get quite technical but it's not being addressed or discussed outside of some limited technical venues that I see.  And it is a BIG issue that deserves wider attention, and not just for SMTP and will affect the whole nature of the internet in the future.