Rant: FutureMark not allowing Conroe results to be published?!? Part II

Three(3) days ago, I posted a rant why Futuremark didn't(??) allow Conroe/Merom benchmarks from the ORB. It was just speculation back then, no hard proofs, since it might just be a quirk in the ORB database. But today, after scouring the net again, I found the final answer.

A FutureMark* staff answered the question:

We usually map/add the new hardware to our online services, such as the ORB, whenever the hardware is officially launched, and available. The CPUs in question were not supposed to be visible, and thus they were removed.

Cheers,

Nick

Well, I know how this feels, but hey, it's FutureMark and the only thing I can do is rant and complain. But if they feel it's not allowed, then it is not allowed. However, the question still remains, why is it that 3DMark01SE is allowed. If FM doesn't care about 3DMark01SE, the next question would be, why was it that Dothan and even early EEs were allowed?

Oh well...