My chief concern in this matter is how good and valuable information may be stolen from this forum, posted on the new one, founded by one of our readers. To that end, I have kept close watch on that board, to see what gets stolen and posted. That's a practice I hope to continue, and will encourage legal action against the ownership of the board should we discover we have been betrayed. Whether we prevailed in court,or not, the financial blow should be punishment enough for the theft of knowledge.
Interestingly, the pledge to the readers of the new board was that they could post on his board without fear of threat of being banned.
The power to dictate to readers can be intoxicating.
Remember how there was a complaint by their founder, one of the endless threats of being banned?
Here's his method of dealing with a subject that is a classic case of hypocrisy:
Re: C.W. Ammens Book, Recovery and Refining
Postby Ken_S » Sat Sep 21, 2013 2:52 pm
rusty wrote:
The book is out of print, once inventory's have been depleted no further prints runs - I would expect the price of the book is going to increase.
I made a request to the copyright owner to use portions of Ammen's book for use on this forum as well GRF.
This is the reply I received from the copyright owner this morning.
Gill,
As the Copyright Owner of "Recovery and Refining of Precious Metals" I have considered your request and am hereby advising that I will not give you permission to reproduce in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, scanning, recording, tape recording, or information storage and retrieval systems, any part of the book "Recovery and Refining of Precious Metals" Authored by C.W. Ammen.
Thank you for your request and honesty in asking for permission.
Best regards,
Garth Muran
President - Deep Rock Resources Inc.
To all members, This means DO NOT MENTION this book in any posts on this forum. DO NOT reference this book in this forum. Doing so will result in removal of your membership.
Thank you Rusty for posting this,
Ken
Safety is always First in refining precious metals!
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I want readers, here, to note that it is perfectly acceptable to make mention of the book. The only restraint should be to not reproduce its contents for publication on the forum.
It takes a great deal of restraint for a moderator to ban for the right reasons, as personal feelings must be overlooked, as they have been in my lashing out at Rusty when he was critical of our leader, Noxx. To have done so on the very forum that is owned by the leader is not acceptable, thus my comments had to be made, whether Gill and I are (make that *were*) friends, or not.
I can not permit readers to make denigrating comments against those who have provided the very means by which the comments were made public. To have done so shows a complete lack of class. Further, to suggest that to get banned would be one's pleasure, then to return to the same forum, where it has been made perfectly clear that the readership has no value, is, once again, a classic example of hypocrisy. Make up your mind, Gill. Are you in, or are you out? If you're in, make it known publicly, and behave accordingly. If you are out, I'll fulfill your wish to be banned. I don't want you here cluttering the board with your nonsense.
Harold
