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Thank you for your concern, but most of us are going on vacation soon, thus reducing attention to the article in question, and I doubt that it will be of any interest, except as a bit of historical esoterica, beyond the first week of January.  However, I have enjoyed my association with you and the other good people who have labored on this.  As the staffers in Florida and New York will be saying soon, ""It's been very nice working with you.""   "