Martin 53N 1W wrote:

Nice summary.

Now there's just the question of how to get it into the FAQ...?

When you've reached the point of agreeing somewhat in this thread,
you could try formulating a ready faq entry that could be copy/pasted
into the FAQ, and fire it off to Mark Taylor, and perhaps include a
google groups link to this thread so he could get an overview of the
conversation in case he isn't actively following alt.sci.seti anymore.