hope that I am not
being too precipitous in bringing it up here and now,
but the cloud has already been seeded and cannot seem
to keep itself from proceeding according to its nature.

The Context:

Jon Awbrey wrote:
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&gt; John,
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&gt; I would like to go through these issues with a degree of care,
&gt; but first I will need to establish some initial understanding.
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&gt; I will start out in something like a questionnaire form,
