Happened to notice the list archive at nabble.com: http://www.nabble.com/Pike---Dev-f14138.html
Grubba is apparently very talkative, although he talks to himself a lot too. ;)
Right now (until it receives this message that is) it's you're the talkative one... the reason being that it apparently maps all messages from LysKOM-users to a single identity...
BTW: For Gentoo users there's now an overlay containing ebuilds for pike-7.8:
layman -o http://pike-git.lysator.liu.se/pike-overlay.xml -f -a pike