Board, we ALL REALLY appreciate your efforts here! Please know I mean that sincerely so that you can understand that the following question is literally just a question-
You have told Oldandnew to "do the work". The guy is reaching out directly to the source to ask them if they're a sub. I would think reaching out directly certainly qualifies as "doing the work" since there's no tea leaves to read that way, right? Please let me know why this isn't a good idea. I seriously don't understand.
To me its like this:
You have a billion Christians all interpreting the Bible in a different way, sometimes resulting in chaos. If you could just pick up the phone and talk to the authors of the Bible or God directly to ask them what they meant by xyz, that would be vastly more efficient and accurate.