Author: Albert Silver
Date: 06:26:57 12/25/04
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On December 25, 2004 at 09:16:14, Norm Pollock wrote:
>On December 25, 2004 at 08:32:14, Roger Brown wrote:
>
>>On December 25, 2004 at 08:12:00, Norm Pollock wrote:
>>
>>>Winboard Forum has been the subject of ongoing harassment. They even changed to
>>>a different format recently due to this situation. It would not surprise me if
>>>it turns out that the "illegal link" to the A-site was placed by the same person
>>>who made the complaint to the provider. Whether or not that person is part of
>>>the Arena team is unknown. It would be nice if the Arena team give us their side
>>>of the story vs the winboard forum.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Hello Norm,
>>
>>I do not often disagree with you on the facts as you are mostly very thorough
>>with your handling of them.
>>
>>:-)
>>
>>I would submit that it is the Winboard team who has not given their side.
>>Perhaps we should change that. You can send an e-mail. I doubt very much that
>>this is an on topic issue here and I am not going to contribute to further
>>flames....
>>
>>Incidentally, have a look at the offending links which were posted and who
>>posted them. They are still there. They do not work but they are still there.
>>
>>:-/
>>
>>Later.
>
>
>Roger,
>
>You give me too much credit for being thorough handling facts. ;-)
>
>I do see lots of Arena 1.1 download links on the WF site. They were put into 2
>threads by one user who appears to be connected to the Arena team. At least some
>of the links in the 2 threads are still working. I do not see any links on the
>website itself.
>
>I really don't understand what the conflict is. A forum user posts download
>links and someone complains to the provider claiming the links are illegal.
As far as I understood, the complaint wasn't of the download links, but of
accessing and hacking the site.
Albert
> The
>provider threatens the forum. The forum bans the user and those close to the
>user for putting up the links. The only plausible explanation I see is that a
>third party is instigating a conflict. But that is my conjecture and
>speculation.
>
>-Norm
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