Dale sez: "...Admin, if you're listening, this algorithm is grossly misnamed and next time you do any housekeeping ..."
Others have responded gently to your several suggestions of this sort. Their gentle efforts appear not to have been heard. Let me lay this out a bit more directly for you.
1. THERE IS NO ADMIN. THERE IS NOBODY NAMED ADMIN. ADMIN DOESN'T LIVE HERE. JACKIE IS NOT THE ADMIN. IF ANYBODY WERE THE ADMIN, IT WOULD BE ANU BUT HE IS NOT. THERE IS NO ADMIN.
2. THE ADMIN IS NOT LISTENING. THIS IS BECAUSE THERE IS NO ADMIN. JACKIE MAY BE (AND PROBABLY IS) LISTENING BUT SHE IS NOT THE ADMIN. ANU, WHO WOULD BE ADMIN IF HE WANTED TO BE AND IF HE WERE LISTENING, IS NOT LISTENING. NOBODY IS LISTENING BUT THE REST OF US AND WE ARE NOT, INDIVIDUALLY NOR COLLECTIVELY, THE ADMIN.
3. THE ADMIN IS NOT GOING TO DO ANY HOUSEKEEPING. IF THE ADMIN WANTED TO DO HOUSEKEEPING, HE OR SHE WOULD HAVE BOUGHT A HOUSE RATHER THAN BB SOFTWARE WHICH REQUIRES (ALMOST) NO ATTENTION. FROM TIME TO TIME, JACKIE MAY MAKE ANU AWARE OF A SEVERE PROBLEM WITH THE BOARD AND ANU OR ONE OF HIS MINIONS MAY ADDRESS IT, BUT NOT REGULARLY, NOT LIKE HOUSEKEEPING, AND NOT CONCERNING MATTERS WHICH ARE OTHER THAN LIFE THREATENING.
4. THERE IS NO POINT IN CONTINUALLY ADDRESSING MESSAGES TO SOMEONE WHO ISN'T THERE.
5. THE BOARD IS A WONDERFUL GIFT TO THOSE WHO USE IT. OUR USE OF IT DOES NOT MAKE US A COMMITTEE FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE BOARD. IT HAS FAULTS AND WE ARE CALLED TO LIVE WITH THEM BECAUSE IT IS UNLIKELY THAT THEY WILL BE REMEDIED. AND THEY CERTAINLY WON'T BE REMEDIED BY ADDRESSING MESSAGES, ON THE BOARD, TO THE ADMIN, WHEN THERE IS NO ADMIN TO READ/RECEIVE THEM.
6. THERE IS NO ADMIN.
