Unscheduled outage 21-22 September

Dear David

Thank you for your civil response, rather more than the ridiculing tone of my own post deserved. Please accept my apologies for the unnecessary jibes.

Given the demonstrably low risk posed by anonymous postings, I have argued that requiring registration provides no real protection while placing a barrier in the way of what have been frequent useful unregistered contributions.

I would go further than the view espoused by Jeff and make clear what I have always replied to these complaints of defamation that I do not accept their assertion that the remarks on this site constitute libel and that I will remove them only as a matter of courtesy when a direct complaint is made.

Personally, I believe that these people are employing bullying tactics and legal threats to shut down thoroughly legitimate discussion and advice simply because an informed point of view differs from their own or may be a threat to their business model.

While I am always the person responsible for dealing with these threats, I appreciate that the current committee (for this and perhaps other reasons (who knows!)) may prefer not to face the prospect that these threats may go further. I support what would appear to be their decision to encourage the site to find a new home - something I suggested perhaps six years ago but the committee chose not to pursue at the time.

Unfortunately along the way it appears the committee has been given some astonishingly poor advice that led them to take thoroughly inappropriate action.

I'm going to post an update as the administrator to the homepage but I hope that the committee will soon post their own side of this saga and confirm verbal advice to me that they will support the transfer of the domain to another incorporated association established specifically to support this community.

I really do look forward to seeing this community put this episode behind it and, in response to Jeff's gentle promptings, seeing what the future has in store.

Cheers
Grant

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Director, actor and administrator of this website