Lots of people talking, few of them know

Prof Metrics gave us Problem Set 2 in the last class before the break - that is to say, 11 days ago. One question in the problem set requires use of a dataset which would normally be posted on Blackboard. Last week I checked Blackboard a few times, but the dataset wasn't there. Today I got around to emailing Prof Metrics about it.

My real question is, was this a test? Did Prof Metrics deliberately refrain from posting the dataset, in order to force us to email him, and thus ascertain when we started the problem set? I wouldn't be surprised - we were all at least a week late handing in Problem Set 1, so he would have some incentive to find out how we think we're organising our time.