Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>  wrote:
 >   With my thinking, no, we shouldn't have.  My point is that we should
 > be doing *something*, even if our current level of technology limits
 > us to near-useless actions.  The point is to get into the mindset of
 > searching, and to make it "just a matter of course" when new
 > (potentially enabling) technologies are developed.

Won't you be sorry when we finally do discover a signal and after
analysing it, discover packets containing EBCDIC.