All hands-- I'm delighted to announce that a special forum has been created at TrawlerCrawler.net for ActiveCaptain users to pose their questions and post their comments, and get all the detailed answers they could possibly want from Jeff Siegel. http://www.trawlercrawler.net/viewforum.php?f=41&start=0 There is of course no ban on ActiveCaptain discussions on T&T List* but it has become apparent that a number of users want and need way more information about ActiveCaptain than is possible to convey here. The special forum gives Jeff Siegel the opportunity to provide detailed customer service responses and promotional information about new features and new capabilities without any of the commercial restrictions of T&T List. The bonus is that the potential audience at Web-based TrawlerCrawler.net is much bigger than via this email medium. The icing on the cake is it's all free, free to ActiveCaptain users and free to Active Corporation. I personally have nothing against ActiveCaptain and its related products. In fact, not so long ago, I posted an enthusiastic feature on Jeff and Karen Siegel at Trawlers & Trawlering <http://www.trawlersandtrawlering.com/news/activecaptain.html >. More so, I occasionally use ActiveCaptain Mobile that I purchased two years ago. But I am adamant that no one product should dominate discussions on T&T List the way Active Captain has, and that my obligation to 2,100 subscribers and hundreds of supporters is to keep the List commercial- free. --Georgs Georgs Kolesnikovs Your host at Trawlers & Trawlering since 1997 http://www.trawlersandtrawlering.com Your host at TrawlerCrawler.net since 2009 http://www.trawlercrawler.net *There continues to be no such ban, as witnessed by the preceding post by Jeff Siegel himself. In that post, Jeff asserts: "I've been threatened with a review of every post I make before it is allowed to be put up." That is quite a twist of the facts. There has never been any attempt to muzzle Jeff on "every post" he makes. At first, Jeff was asked to tone down the promotional nature of his posts about his products. When he posted a lengthy explanation of something at ActiveCaptain, which sounded an awful lot like a customer service letter, I asked Jeff, to avoid problems in the future, to fly any such future postings about his products by me or Listmaster Bob McLaren. It's the kind of request List Admin frequently makes of people in the marine business to avoid problems such as the current commotion. Often, such requests are received in a positive manner and everyone lives happier ever after. But, alas, not this time.