sucks this has to happen, but i know you guys will be staying true to the rotary so good luck with whatever you guys are doing, even if we won't be hearing about it out here in the east

 

PS Is it me , or lots of posts are being deleted ?[/QUOTE]



does your post counter go down when they delete a post of yours?
mine has gone down and I'm a little puzzled.

 

yah the whole reted thing was taken out

 

Weeeee Toddd Iddd

 

yea they deleted my post.. haha

 

minus 1 for you! lol

 

well since my post was edited, maybe I will make it a little more PC
Chris, Graham Your leaving will deprive the community of the knowlege you have to share.
Chris, I know we never saw Eye to eye in situations, however I do hope to talk to you sometime face to face, and have a civil conversation, to Burry that hatchet as it were.
Good Luck guy's!

 

not a surprize that my hit on reted was removed.. afterall he is one of the ' prized & protected ' on this fourm.. which is actually a good example of why this thread was started to begin with.. funny that.

 

Or maybe it was snipped b/c it was a flame, which isn't supposed to be tolerated any more in here (unless it's aimed at CAN-SAF. ) Even screaming matches in the Lounge have fallen under the knife - something that had almost never happened before this year.


AFAIK, RETed hasn't spent a dime on advertising on the forum and isn't personal buds with any of the admins or the owner. If he's on a Prized and Protected list, he got on it by accident.

 

[QUOTE=Amur_]Or maybe it was snipped b/c it was a flame, which isn't supposed to be tolerated any more in here (unless it's aimed at CAN-SAF.



You flaming CAN-SAF? Bad Amur Bad

 

Having never actually had any real interactions with reted, I can't say I figure him any more "prized" or "protected" than anybody.. Feel free to PM me if you'd like to chat about it, or add me to your MSN (vipernicus42@hotmail.com ... big surprise). I'm always open to hearing alternate opinions and viewpoints.

But about the post count, we can just postwhore a bit to get them numbers up, can't we?

Jon

 

What's CAN-SAF?

And Insurance Companies, Stupid Ticket-Giving Cops and the Government are all open flame targets, within reason



Jon

 

That's a good thing... or I'd be seriously banned by now

 

damn I see why my post was edited my attempt at trying to burry the hatchet... still somehow managed to turn into a flame war... In a thread that is about good bye's and good luck's.... oh well I guess it is forum nature to flame... NO MATTER WHAT.

 

I'd actually already pointed that out, unfortunatly, even that got deleted

my new favorite smiley --------> :gay2:

 

Frank, you have too much time on your hands. Looks like good ol' VB6, no?

Jon

 

The info on page one is correct. PMs are not safe.

Moderators can read PMs with complete impunity.

This has caused many problems on the NW forum.

 

No, moderators can't read PMs.

ADMINS might be able to, but moderators definitely can't.

And considering the admins seem to have their hands full with other things most of the time, they would only read PMs IF you gave them damned good reason to (assuming they have that ability).

Think about it. Even if you had the ability, most people have better things to do than to sit and read people's messages to each other. I have a tough enough time reading all the posts that go through 1st Gen and Canadian sections in a day and responding to my own PMs.

It's a public domain forum. It's here because we as enthusiasts make it so. It's in all our best interests to treat each other with a certain degree of respect no matter what our personal opinions or social agendas are. I don't have to like people, I just have to disagree in a civil way. It's not hard to show dissatisfaction and share my opinion without resorting to vulgarity, direct attacks or flaming if you take a few minutes to think before you post.

More than likely the largest exposure to PMs that we mods get are PMs reported to us by other members or PMs sent directly to us.


Everyone's had a week to say their goodbyes or hop on the last train out of rotorville, so unless anyone has any objections I'm going to close the thread and let it drop off the main page.

Jon

edit: for the computer geeks out there, think about this: The PMs are sent and stored on this forum's server. This means that even if none of the mods or admins have the ability to read PMs, the DBAdmin could conceivably write an SQL query to pull it up out of the database. This is a pain in the *** to do for no reason, but is definitely do-able for anyone with access to the server's database directly. Anyone here who knows how to do that knows how much effort is involved and thus how much you'd really have to *want* to do it before you'd invest the time. No system is perfectly secure. Someone at Microsoft has DB rights to your hotmail inbox too. Someone at your ISP has DB rights to your email there. But who has the will or the time to invest in that kind of attempt? If you want to talk securely to someone, get a PGP key and send an encrypted email, or talk face-to-face.