>while the Go team actually had already been working on a fix This is the part with which I take issue. Maybe they were working on addressing the issue, but ma

>while the Go team actually had already been working on a fix This is the part with which I take issue. Maybe they were working on addressing the issue, but maybe they were not. Given the acknowledged DDoSing of hosts by Google, more communication or prioritization would have been appropriate. From the outside (admittedly my only limited perspective), Drew's actions resulted in positive change for all source hosts. Heck, it is even probably less load on Google's servers.