Thanks for the offer! I've just emailed Vaniver (since I already know him), and I'll re-evaluate how confident I feel about my post after I chat with him, and then send you a note if I think that I'm not quite where I want to be with the post by then.
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.
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