I guess I should have been a little clearer as to the why.

Calling it a "gateway" is a misnomer. It's not a gateway. It doesn't work both ways. If someone reads a post that Marc has scraped and replies, the reply never makes it to the forum.

Even if they DID make it, the usefulness of his scraper is questionable at best, but the factioning nature of it is readily obvious -- people can get confused using it thinking that the original poster will get their message if they reply (which they may or may not depending on if the poster has set up their BBS profile to use a fictitious address on the web page). Traffic is also then split up between the two forums un-necessarily. All it does is confuse the situation, and provides very little that isn't already there for the purpose of aid.

If people want an e-mail list, there already exists one. If people want a web forum, one of those exists as well. Scraping the content off of an established forum and redistributing it without so much as asking permission pretty well defines the word "rude" in most respects. If Marc had ASKED PERMISSION first, then maybe my mindset on this might have been a little more lax and forgiving, but instead he has decided that he somehow has a right to use the content as he sees fit, which I cannot accept.

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