Newps wrote:

I'm also not likely to take off IFR w/o a
squawk.

Nobody's worried about you forgetting you're IFR, all this is about a
VFR tower launching an IFR aircraft into the system and the pilot is the
only one who knows he's IFR. That's bad.

Right. And in another part of my note, I wrote that the tower is attempting
to avoid this by exploiting the low probability of the pilot either
forgetting he/she is IFR or departing w/o a squawk.

- Andrew