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thesquanderer

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4. Interesting that the request is being made public.

Reply to murielm99 (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 14, 2026, 08:40 AM

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I"m guessing they tried to keep it to private back channels first, and then people (on their side? on our side?) felt it would be better to make the request public.

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