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[kaz]

[Ratman]

Having now returned from my trip I am totally bemused by what I find here. Admin, I agree the post that is causing the problem should and will be removed.

As you are no doubt aware as it was pointed out earlier by Quixote, we are a country forum with members who are actively involved in the pursuits they post about, I have been with several Countryways members fishing today and this evening, hence my absence. I do have a very active life in the country and for that reason I am not always on hand to read every post that is made or to rule with a dictatorship approach. I leave it in the trust of the members to be responsible for what they post, however it would appear I need to remove this post and remind the poster of the reason which I will do immediately.

I see that the OTG admin had no knowledge of my absence today, strange really as they obviously seem to have spent rather a long time trawling my forum for anything else,  I thought they may have noticed.

Graham the Builder has already highlighted several complaining posts made previously by the OTG admin. One in particular was a complaint about me when I left their site, because of this pettiness actually, to form Countryways. At the time you were happy to lock the forum complaint and conclude it was a poor effort by them to try and cause trouble and it was merely an inter forum squabble, something which we witness here now.

The posts already made have highlighted the lengths that OTG admin will go to to cause trouble to any forum they consider in competition with theirs. Buying domain names for another forum GWBT, asking another forum the access code so they can get access to the admin panel on GWBT, surely this is not proper or respectable behaviour from a forum admin ??.

I have a message on my answerphone at present from the OTG admin that I will quite happilly copy on here word for word, or if you want to pm me I will pass my telephone number so as you can hear it for yourself. It is regarding a member who left their forum  OTG recently after they had offended him with their admin ways and he posted the reason on Countryways, as when he tried to put it on OTG it disappeared very quickly. The message I have is aimed directly at me (which I had nothing to do with actually) claiming I was in breach of copyright and I must remove the post immediately etc. Further to which I was also indirectly accused of spamming their site (see their chat section Spamming thread) which may have possibly now been removed !!

Furthermore, my wife was subjected to much harrassment from one of OTG moderators on MSN two nights ago.
I also have a complaint from a member on Countryways that he recieved an unwanted and unfounded email from OTG admin very recently accusing him of trying to join their site as Postman Pat. I too have had several people try to join here with bogus names and proxy addressess. I am quite happy to dig out the details if required. I could go on but I will save them for an official complaint if that is the procedure we have to follow. As quixote has highlighted, on many occasions we have had cause to complain but have not, it seems perhaps I should from now on.

As you can see this is no more than a petty forum squabble, we have been on the recieving end of much similar content and jibes but have been more mature in the matter and feel we do not need to tell teacher everytime someone calls us a name. From now on as your request, then I will. I do not believe we have contrvened the T& C other than the post that will be removed and it would appear that nothing is now suggesting so. The admin from OTG are banned from posting on CW the same as we are banned from posting on OTG. They have even made their forum unavailable to guests to view, and have made another section only available to those members making over 50 posts (Free Forum ?????)

I suggest if our petty toying does not please them then like any TV channel, if you don't like it watch the other side.
If CW offends them so then why do they seem to have this urge to be monitoring us and trawling through our posts 24 hours a day ????

Like I say a petty forum squabble. Am off to remove offending post now.
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[admin (no pm's please)]

Well as you say petty forum squabble (though not so petty really), taken oven the line by one totally unacceptable post.

Providentially our phone lines are out, and are going to stay that way for another day or three as someone has dug too deep a hole and wiped BT off the map for a large chunk around   So as I'm not going to spend my mobile bill on this, I'm not going to be listening to answer phone messages.

You both have large and viable forums, it should not be too hard for you to ignore each other. Surely you should all see how unattractive this sort of thing is to new members stumbling across your forums?

I am going to lock this now and hope I have heard the last of it.
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[admin (no pm's please)]

I'm aware the admin has been away, so I am not taking action immediately, but I see the thread:

http://countryways.myfreeforum.org/Email_Harrassment_about4889.html

is still an announcement.

I must insist on seeing a commitment to put this squabble into the past by letting such threads die or preferably removing them all together.

The clock is ticking...

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