Broadcasting?

[mmcirvin]

From a Washington Post article about astrobiology:

In addition, the private group SETI, or Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, has been broadcasting radio messages to hoped-for intelligent aliens for years and listening for a response -- sometimes with NASA support -- but has been met so far with silence.

If I were a member of the SETI Institute, I suspect I'd be annoyed by this: "Do they think we don't know about the speed of light?" In fact, all actual efforts to send messages to extraterrestrials thus far have been symbolic tokens, sent with no hope of a response; the SETI Institute's projects just watch and listen.