Sorry folks, but we have been abandoned in a most reprehensible manner. JL may be having problems but he has been reported posting regularly to his other areas of interest. But he has not given one minute to communicating with us.

Deny it if you must, but we no longer matter to JL. How long would it take to update the status screen even if it said it wasn't coming back? There wasn't even the pitiful screen we did get until I contacted JL's associate and told him I was writing an article for Wired magazine on the tragedy of BT and how it had left thousands of vulnerable people stranded. I was assured that the situation was temporary and that JL would make it right. The status screen went up the next day and since then zilch. I may really write that story. This is no small matter.

If JL is going to pull the equivalent of abandoning his family to run away with a painted floozy, so be it. It's time to accept the fact that, whatever he may have been at one time, he ended the relationship in a most dishonorable manner. And he STILL doesn't give a rat's butt about us. One message would have set things to rights. He couldn't make time even for that.

But there is still one thing he could do to make things tolerable. Turn over the archive, John. Give us our history. If it is trashed, we will fix it. Give it to us and let's simply agree to part. If not, don't expect the issue to go away. There is too much pain and suffering in that archive to just turn our backs on it.