=> [ lots of folks said ]

So I leave you with two questions:

1) Why are backup admins testy this way?  Is this an overflow of the
technical
   paranoia which is our stock-in-trade?

Because we are sick and tired of being called 'backup admins'

2) If a polite (if somewhat sycophantic) initial contact makes us mad, what
   kind of contact would be welcome?

close, intimate, preferably with a member of the opposite sex...

Mark

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