Your mail should not be some sort of personal attack unless you feel that it is relevant for everyone to read. Excuse the hideous nickname won't you, I only just installed ICQ, the first thing to require a nickname. . . But onto things important. Your Patches topic is something I hoped you would bring up on the mailbag, and something that I am sure everyone has some sort of opinion on. I appreciate that Mugwum probably wants to keep this one to himselves, after all it is rather controversial, so I will give you mine.
Patches are good in some ways and for some people, and bad in others for others.
They are good because they can fix otherwise unusable bugs which occur through no fault of the developer and the patches can also provide extras for the player. The sort of people who want that are those people who want perfection. They are bad because people should not be forced to download a patch in order that a game will work. That is not fair business. The client should not need to waste time and money in getting hold of things to enable their purchase to work.