On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 08:22:15PM -0400, Charles M. Hannum wrote:
> In fact, the machinations are entirely opaque.

BTW, for those who forget, I in fact changed this -- briefly -- myself,
by making the "core" mailing list archive readable by developers.  This
was undone very shortly after I resigned from "core", making the process
opaque again.