Bob,
What baffles me is the expectation to use facilities for virtually
zero cost.
While I appreciate your desire to help Mark out, everyone has their own limits and responsibilities.
GMF is just a help and discussion group, so here it is quite ok to talk about proposed features or changes to Groups.io without feeling that you'll insult Mark or impact his business. He's not even a member here (that's deliberate, he asked to send general questions over to Group Help and GMF to reduce the traffic level in beta@).
(see Group Description)
Shal