>I simply wanted to go some way to protecting unaware users from
>the serious damage this can cause.
>

I read my mail rather late last night and became quite despondent. 
Jeff pretty much summarized my thoughts and I won't beat a dead 
horse, but consider this:

The best way to protect unaware users from the evils of Mode 32 1.2 
is to promote LEM and THIS LIST, not to make suggestions to a major 
university regarding a directory they have allowed to exist for years.

The language chosen was most unfortunate.  "Out-dated and potentially 
damaging" in the minds of people on the cutting edge of technology 
could well apply to the whole directory.  While one of us would take 
notice of something like this on one of our websites, does anyone 
really believe that a university would bother to replace one outdated 
extension with another outdated extension?  Once made aware of a 
potential liability associated with this directory, the best we can 
hope for is that they will ignore it and do nothing.

I don't want to berate Mark for this, though, and hope that no one 
else does.  I'm sure he already feels bad enough.  We all make 
mistakes.  That's just human.  Let's just make sure that we learn 
from this one so that no one else repeats it someday.

Regards,
Marshall
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