Mark Pilgrim once had a hilarious blog post in which he argued that all software developers were either assholes are psychopaths. He also argued that some people believed in angels, who followed the specs for the best of reasons, but who were actually mythical. Your """"Your packet sent at T did not conform to spec, per para..." Gradually, things got better""" would make you an angel, as you did it for the right reasons, though I imagine some of the people you wrote gave you a different classification.

Sadly, Mark Pilgrim committed info-suicide and erased everything he'd written from the Web. (Off topic: it is sad how much disappears from the Web, and how many weblogs shut down. Some of the best essays I've ever read were on weblogs, now gone. I just revived a weblog I had run in 2005, and checking the links I found that the linkrot was running in the area of 50% to 60%.)