You gotta remember that most of the guys that administer this project are paid to operate at the expert level for their primary jobs.
This project is an extra-curricular activity for them and it's really easy to miss a full explanation for something that they take for common knowledge.
Plus, you need to consider that most of the day yesterday was spent trying to get the server back online..so, the fact that we got an update message
with the actual ip addresses is a bonus
