Don't worry I did read that.
got a little question for you since you posted the tirade... When you say:
"As I have very plainly stated before to the ASL Board members and others, as long as I have the resources to support ASL they will remain available. In that I will pledge to my fellow hams that PTTLink will remain operational and available for use as long as I am able to continue to provide the time and other resources to keeping it operational."
Since ASL does not need your support (obviously) why continue to put time and money in that network?
And: "Additionally, you can use the DNS node lookup developed by W9CR (which
was working with
allstarlink.org before the ASL Board forked the network):"
Care to explain how they forked the network? What I have seen, like you said, "
Investigation showed that the SOA record for allstarlink.org was changed to what it is now (Cloudflare) " . That aint forking any network, that is switching servers. Pointing to a new or many new server never was a fork. Heck W9CR used at least 3 servers to run the network. If that was so bad, how come you did not come back to us before with that so bad thing?
I will agree with you, you got a boot in the pants. On that we cannot disagree. But ask yourself why the board of directors of ASL acted like that?
You got the finger pointing real fast at others, what about some introspection. I am not your psy, never been one, will never be one. But things like that do not happen out of nowhere. Do a step back and look at the whole situation. Does the ASL network is down? nope, Is there a large amount of nodes still stuck on the old IP address?nope. Will the ASL network survive without you? Sure thing!
Now you and others, as you stated, are using a database that does not belong to you or the pttlink.org, it was never yours, will never be yours. Get a life, act like a grown up and learn from what happened.
Use the technology, it is open source after all. But the database of user information is not open source and will never be. BTW, if the information that I entered into the ASL database ever finds a way to a darknet server, I will find you personally responsible, NOT ASL, you....