Joel, if you ever sent an email directly to the Board asking it to take action, I never saw it. Apparently on some occasions you cc-ed the Board on comments posted to natter, where the Board was referred to in the third person. This is not the same thing. I say apparently, since I saw some natter posts (being subscribed to natter) and didn't notice that the board was cc-ed. If you want to bring something before you the Board, you have to address the Board directly. A letter or personal appearance is preferable to email, since email is so easily overlooked or misplaced. Indeed, if you did send an email directly to the Board requesting their intervention, that is probably what happened to it. I know I would not deliberately overlook such a message. I must confess, however, that I do not read all of your posts on natter.