[Design of Marci Letter]

[eggyk]

Of course we should ask questions - I'm just saying that not all questions are answerable, and at a certain point you may just have to accept that. Not all paths of inquiry are worth the effort, time, risk, and expense given the potential outcome.

I would consider some of the questions being asked in this thread relatively answerable, with relatively large implications. If strong evidence of the marci letter being attached to the VMS were to be found, that's hugely important to the VMS provenance. 

I think it's fair to say that we shouldn't expect answers to these questions, but it would be a disservice to VMS research to simply not bother probing wherever possible for leads. At the end of the day, who decides what is, and isn't worth investigating? And who decides what is and isn't worth the risk? Beinecke, I suppose.