Some readers of this thread may not realize it, but the folks who support and maintain FT do it on their own time on a volunteer basis. (While I haven't seen Randy's books and probably never will, I suspect income from ads doesn't come close to paying for the server space and comm lines, let alone leave anything to pay them.) Expecting them to spend much of this time trying to hack something that may or may not work and may have negative side effects is unreasonable. They have enough to do as it is.

(It's not that the original suggestion was unreasonable - it wasn't - but a snide reply to Dan's polite refusal is.)