You know, MrsCorpio needs to tune up his cerebral machinery.
Ten and a half years ago, at the onset of the scam that rocked the internet, those of us proponents of open and honest fund-raisers made a big mistake that cost us a lot of time; if we hadn't made it, the scamdal would've been over with a lot sooner.
We kept thinking that poor stupid Beth and her crowd thought the same way we did, used the same systems and lines of logic and reasoning.
In hindsight, we were pretty stupid, thinking that.
MrsCorpio needs to ruminate on that; perhaps the illuminary who wrote the letter doesn't think about things the same way he does.