No problem with you at all, Ed - seriously - hope you don't take it that way. You've been amazing for years - umm - decades??!!
Yep - I do take issue with the "freeloading" by Vertical Scopes - and all those involved. They knew exactly what they were doing and why. "Professionalism" and "honor" appears to be a bygone trait of yesteryear - and rather, if they can't "buy it" honestly - they'd rather take another underhanded tact. It will be interesting to watch how this unfolds for them.
As for the rest? I don't feel I need to subsidize Vertical Scopes et al - and be their public "PA" system for their "new forum".
I wouldn't expect them to do it for this community - the "Original and real Lugerforum", either. I don't hold to "double standards" either.
Best always,
John D.