Admins were vilified for posting the notice to The Monastery Gates, in an attempt to notify all users visitng the site, as I said in my addendum.

You well know the impossibility of notifying some 40K users, who may well have inputted bogus e-mails, e-mails that were current when inputted but have since fallen out of use, etc. Not to mention spam filters and so on. I can only conclude your definition of "factual" differs greatly from my own.