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[Richard H]

The forums are now back online

[ProfHawking]

Cool, well done.
I thought the consensus was that the london b**bs were military grade HE, not homemade stuff.
Anyway, allways best to be cautious i spose.

[seymour]

WOW! How lucky we are to have such a dedected and hard working admin/mod team! Such a task I woul have expected to take weeks to complete was finished in but a day! You all deserve a long holliday.

[Richard H]

The serious nature of what happened in London required a swift and robust response. We wanted to ensure that we have done all we can to prevent the discussion of high explosives, in particular Acetone Peroxide.

We are satisfied to the extent that we felt the forum could be re-opened.

[pritch]

I must admit I thought it was overkill and kinda made us all look bad. The guy had a degree in chemistry or bio chemistry and I'm sure there are hundreds if not thousands of sources for such information on HE so what it had to do with us, a forum which has nothing to do with that kinda thing whatsover just baffles me. I really just felt it was kinda offensive to all of us and it made me worried about even using the forum if the admins were going to be possibly showing information off the forum to the security services........ just seemed totally unecessary. Could have been done quietly if anything.

Cough *drama queens*

[Richard H]

if you have nothing to hide then you have no reason to be worried. We were not expecting to find anything questionable, but we decided to check. Quite puzzled you found this offensive, but ho hum there we go.

[pritch]

My thinking is though, what was the point in closing down the entire forum and putting up a message that was basically saying we are checking up on our members and forum to see if anything here is connected to the terror attacks which means you think there is a chance that might be the case, which would be very serious for the forum and possibly members while you searched for threads about HE? Couldnt it have been done quietly without anyone being any the wiser and in the odd chance that something was connected then take action?

[Richard H]

Given that nothing was found it is now irrelevant. As I said, if you stick by the forum rules and have done all along then you have nothing to worry about, and this is the end of the matter.

Now, lets's get back to the fireworks if you please

[chrissw]

if you have nothing to hide then you have no reason to be worried. We were not expecting to find anything questionable, but we decided to check. Quite puzzled you found this offensive, but ho hum there we go.

No problem as far as I am concerned, if we are seen to belong to a sensibly-managed forum then the security people will - if they look - see that we are a responsible group with no interest in anything iffy - well done to 'The Management' for taking the time out to do it!

[BigG]

My thinking is though, what was the point in closing down the entire forum and putting up a message that was basically saying we are checking up on our members and forum to see if anything here is connected to the terror attacks which means you think there is a chance that might be the case, which would be very serious for the forum and possibly members while you searched for threads about HE? Couldnt it have been done quietly without anyone being any the wiser and in the odd chance that something was connected then take action?

Pritch - The forum was taken down not to "check on members" or as a hysterical response to what happen. We are all very busy ? resources on AP are plenty on the net ? and we just don?t want to be a part of this. Our response for any discussion regarding HE has always been very swift and clear ? ?not here, not now, not never ? and you are not welcome??

As there are only about six or seven of us and about 15,000 messages ? it has been easier for us to check that nothing slipped in through the cracks when nobody accesses the forum. We did not think we will find anything ? and great ? we didn?t. Better safe then sorry.

As Richard said ? back to fireworks.

Edited by BigG, 16 July 2005 - 06:56 PM.