A friend sent me the following message from Ed Chabot, the Administrator of the Marlin and H&R/NEF Talk Forums. Marlin Arms owns both web sites and H&R/NEF Firearms.
We noted that Marlin Talk was cancelled because of technical and administrative considerations. As you all know, Marlin pays to have our website including Marlin Talk on the Internet. It is, therefore, a company sponsored feature. This makes Marlin responsible for what appears on the site. As you know, many statements, questions and recommendations appear on the site that may be factually wrong, provide dangerous information, or contradict Marlin safety instructions. Ideally, Marlin Talk entries that we disagree with or are just plain incorrect, should be answered by Marlin at the site in a timely manner.
This task simply cannot be done because of lack of personnel thus it is truly an administrative problem. To continue with Marlin Talk, leaving these concerns, questions, and issues unanswered, is a situation that we do not consider acceptable.
To allow former Marlin Talk members the opportunity to retrieve e-mail addresses or download listed posts we are opening Marlin Talk, without the ability for users to post, until February 20, 2004.
We apologize for any inconvenience that the discontinuance of Marlin Talk causes you, but due to a wide variety of issues we have no alternative choice.
Ed Chabot, Administrator---------------------------------------
Someone else may have already posted this here on GBO. If so, sorry.
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