# Monitors *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 15 Jul 1997* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Joel Priddy *15 Jul 1997, 16:24* Kevin McGuire say: >> This implies a lot more initiative and synthesis than I had >> given the monitors credit for. So, does Silk and the rest >> continually underestimate the monitor's powers (a not unreasonable thought) or is the monitor in the lander a bit sharper/more independent? Or was there a Monitor Directive #305 - "If an inhumi says left, go right,"?<< Also, did the Monitor reverse the decision out of concern for the Cargo, or out of it's own sense of self-preservation? cephalothorax ---