Paul E. Gierucki wrote:For the record, this is not a closed forum. I personally handle the bulk of board maintenance and the other Godfathers (both Richard and Rob) kindly agreed to temporarily disable new memberships while I am away working on new restoration projects. Anyone claiming anything to the contrary is incorrect.
Paul E. Gierucki
Ahm, well, no, while not technically a closed forum, we are also not a public forum (re-read the opening rules folks), nor are we a Democracy. As said in those opening rules, this is our clubhouse, and some members of the Public are allowed to join if they behave themselves (which automatically has eliminated Ms. Reid and Mr.Tuttle from any chance of getting in at this point) and we feel like letting them in, but I do enjoy someone frothing that we are not communicating with them as they post an immediate response from us. The wonderful thing about the internet is that anyone’s blog or website is just a click or two away, so the lines of communication appear to be open. But once one goes whacko and starts into personal insults and threats of bodily harm, we will not waste time speaking directly to them, we will deal with the facts and put their names on the Security list for the next public appearance.
Yet I think they would at least appreciate that we did link their tirade and everything else they had written (at least, until they deleted or removed it from their website), especially after Mr. Tuttle’s blog, having appeared to be open about six or seven months and having less hits on it than our thread on this subject has gotten in the last few weeks, now has gotten a hundred or so more hits just from being seen on our newgroup. Hey, he might even get another follower apart from Ms. Reid.
In any event, we are done with this nonsense. The pictures are posted, the real experts seem to agree, (or do we? What sort of synchophants are you! Anyone think that’s John Wayne in the picture? Speak up now!). Though I’m sure we’ll hear more nattering from the John Wayne looneys, the word has gotten out to those who really know what in the hell they’re talking about that this one’s not so. We can leave the rest to the usual conspiracy theorists, tea-partyers, and ones who’ve seen Elvis on the UFO.
RICHARD M ROBERTS