it's fair to say that gutcheck is an excellent piece of software. it's also fair to say that it returns far too many false positives. it's also fair to say that we _could_ have hoped that gutcheck's status as "open source" would have lead it to be _improved_ far more often than it has been, given its level of importance. it's also fair to say that it wouldn't be that hard to improve it, if someone _decided_ to, as the problems are not intractable. it's also fair to say if nobody improves it, it won't be improved. all those things are fair to say. -bowerbird