UP/Athearn/Lionel/Licensing/Trademarks.....Okay Folks Enough is Enough!!!!!

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It’s getting a little old. Five, now six of the current topics on page one revolve around UP-Athearn-Trademarks-Licensing-Lionel-etc-etc…

All that’s getting accomplished is a great deal of whining, flaming, and general unpleasantry FROM ALL SIDES. Opinion, emotions and speculation are triumphing over common sense, civility and fact of law. So instead of trading shots here, send your comments directly to the players.

We are allowed a great deal of leeway in the forums here, much more so than some other sites. Much of that is based on Bergie relying on us to police ourselves, because he simply doesn’t have the time to be a full time moderator. Let’s not force him to shut the forums down for a couple of months to “upgrade software”.

Here’s some links to vent to your heart’s content:

http://www.uprr.com/
http://www.athearn.com/
http://www.lionel.com/
http://www.csx.com/

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[#ditto][#ditto][#ditto]

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deharmon, while I agree with you, I have to disagree with your tactic here. In starting this topic, all you have done is to help continue the very thing you are tying to stop.

I think the only best way to kill the issue is to STOP RESPONDING!

Yes, I’m technically in violation of my own advice by even writing this reply, but I think people need to be reminded that the fastest way to kill a topic is to STOP POSTING TO IT!!

Do whatever it takes to keep your hands off the keyboard. Handcuff them, electrify your keyboard, have your dog attack you when you try to click to reply, whatever! JUST STOP!

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Bergie needs some help moderating then we should give it to him. Thats the only way to stop the crap on this board.[:o)]