Actually Flameduck I would find posts that told me a release date was going back a month useful.
Why? It has no effect on the actual release date. Estimates for large IT projects (like BlitzMAX) are always going to be wrong. If Frederick P. Brooks can't do it, what chance does the rest of us have?Incidently, you forgot to include your own example of what you would expect (content wise) from such a regular communication update.