I think, DATBoy, that you would have done a better job of asking for help in the first place and understanding the answer and keeping track of who you had been speaking with. Then you wouldn't have come to TS and posted this:
This evening they responded basically telling me to f-off.
If I'm right, then no one would be reading about it here.
Keyword - "they." He never addressed you by directly by name and he also never once copied and pasted the communication of who he talked to directly. He made a general statement on what he was told. You could have handled this much better and came across more professional than you did and frankly you didn't. This is all on you. As far as I'm concerned, you just solidified my argument against people like you who are involved with etree. Being a volunteer for etree or anywhere on or off the internet for other places is NOT a license to act anyway you please with people's information and/or communication. You can't get away with doing that as a volunteer in many organizations/places and certainly why you are with no one calling you out on this initially baffles me tremendously. Certainly I don't call the shots here on etree's way of handling things, but God help all of those users on here or anywhere if they still trust putting their information and/or private communication into the etree admin's hands.
DATboy and Goldey - Just stop.
All this crap is just refrying the same bacon. We've all been through this before and its always the same. Some one gets mad about something and it starts a fight over something stupid. And then absolutely nothing changes.
BT.ETREE was run by volunteers many years ago. Because of the fact that you can never please all the people all the time, they got fed up with the BS and left. They pretty much left BT on auto-pilot, ie nothing changes. Eventually it was going to die. Anyone in the know could foresee that.
DB.ETREE is a different situation. I think their main server is down b/c of Florence??? And Tom Anderson does a good job. He will answer your questions, and do maintenance as needed...
I really hope DB comes back. I don't maintain a list there, but the PH DB, and all the Knowledge Inherent In The Universe, is almost required in order to maintain a good PH collection. I personally would like to see the PH (and other bands that have an important presence there) be split out into their own DBs and maintained separately so that one rotten apple doesn't ruin the entire barrel...
And while I would like to see BT make a come back, I don't think it serves a particular function that can't be replicated by another site, or another version of BT. I wonder if anyone here would be willing take on the monumentally painful task of running BT??? I wish I could, but I'm just about computer illiterate...
Terry