I just found this thread again... and never did give the update I wanted to give.

I was reinstated. By staff at IB... CF had a booth set up at the 60th Corvette Bash at the Petersen Auto Museum last March.

A nice person, I will call Lee (gender nonspecific!), not to reveal this persons real identity to the snooping eyes of some folks... Lee was rather intrigued with my story of how I got banned.

Lee was telling me that they have been trying to reel in Jesse, but he is so stuck in his ways that he hasn't been able or willing, to adjust away from over enforcement.

Lee had me reinstated and Jesse banned me within the same day. Jesse then sent me a series of PMs, that I didn't reply to, but did forward back to Lee. I was reinstated. And I haven't heard from Jesse since... He was trying to push my buttons and perhaps figure out how I got my access back. I wasn't going to get into a war of words with him, so I simply let Lee handle it.

I posted a "Guess who's back" thread, and it got locked by Jesse, then a moderator... and eventually unlocked both times... With Jim giving some leeway, IIRC, because of the time away, etc... I don't push this site over there, if I link, I don't state the site name in the link, It just takes you somewhere... if they complain, deal with it.

In short, CF is trying to tear down those walls of isolation. I hope they succeed, there is too much information out there to corner the market like this... and to me, it violates the spirit of Net Neutrality.