Re: [Bitcoin-development] Alert System

@Steve re "Who knows, it might be the only way we'll ever hear from Satoshi again." That brings up a good point... Does anyone aside from Satoshi actually have the ability to send such an alert? Should we at the very least change the alert system to give such privileges to current devs and ensure

[Bitcoin-development] Alert System

There has been some discussion on the new Bitcoin StackExchangesite lately about the alert protocol. A few have suggested that it might carry the potential for abuse (spam/DoS) and others have argued that it's merely deprecated. In any case, enough have voiced conc