89ersmate,
First and foremost we wish you the best of fortune running your site and have no objections to folks mailing you to discuss items of mutual interest.
Having said that, let's cut to the chase. You've been with us a very long time and must know that every single iteration or link to 'the list' has always been expunged from this site. We have satisfied ourselves through very experienced legal assistance that errors in each of its various iterations left us wide open to legal action.
By allowing a link to a site which at may, at some point, contain the list or a link to it we open ourselves again to such action. Here at the Towers we are comfortable that overall the service we provide 24/7/365 far outweighs the few times we have to act to protect ourselves.
It is often mooted on this forum that outsiders simply don't simply don't understand a culture that prides itself on forceful, even bellicose, debate. Here at the Towers we see the other side of any argument and, in this case of cultural difference, we are the ones coping with the flip side.
Latest threat to sue arrived 3 hours ago. As is usual (over 90% of threats during 7 years of running the site) legal actions emmanate as the result of posts on the Australian forums. Next time someone, yet again, wants to trot out that tired old canard think about this paragraph before pressing the submit button. Ozmates actually have the most fragile egos in the aviation world in terms of running to a lawyer - perhaps due to the frustration of not being able to simply thump the 'speaker'......
If you or others have a different opinion that's entirely to be expected but until or when a site is registered to your real name and address you're not walking that famous mile in our shoes. What we say goes - as you've found, creating a site is ridiculously easy and anyone can do it. Getting and keeping an audience is an entirely different matter once you start attracting the attentions of m'learned friends.
Best Wishes, especially to those having to work away from home this Christmas,
Rob
Last edited by PPRuNe Towers; 21st Dec 2002 at 10:59.