>>I hate to sound elitist, but maybe one of the problems is the ease
>>with which hundreds(?) of people have obtained CVS accounts?   If you
>>either (1) don't know what you are doing with CVS, or (2) are not
>>willing to learn how to use it without bugging Derek, then maybe you
>>shouldn't have a CVS  account?

I don't think this attitude is being elitist. It's realistic.

The only reason I involved Derek was that the troubleshooting documentation referred issues to the Project issue queue. 

This misuse of Derek's time has since been identified (and corrected).

- Ken Rickard
agentrickard