This is not good news and will seriously diminish the value of this open forum. I realise that it is too late to reverse the decision but would like to register my protest and express the hope that our NATS colleagues will not get even more paranoid, introverted and navel-gazing on their own private forum. Some, at least, I hope, will continue to share ideas and news and invite debate with those of us left abandoned outside the hallowed halls.