Let me try to put this in plain English.

• OnTheDash has approximately 3,000 images on the website -- photos and scans

• some of these photos are mine; many been submitted / sent-in by readers all around the world . . . maybe 60 or 80 different guys

• to take a single photo, and put it on the website (or to put it on this discussion forum), requires considerable effort -- download; rename; resize; upload; add caption; etc. . . . hundreds or thousands of hours, when you consider the entire website . . . still, I am usually happy to do this -- good for the website / good for our readers

• it also takes a considerable effort to track "which photos are where on the website?" and "which photos came from which reader?"

• I have uploaded and managed every single one of these images, all by myself . . . nothing particularly heroic, but it may help you understand the human element of this whole thing . . . hundreds or thousands of hours of effort

• this is why I have the language in the "legalese" that says that someone who submits a photo to OnTheDash gives OnTheDash the right to continue to display it, forever . . . I would never add a photo, if the person who submitted it insisted on the right to pull it, whenever he felt like it . . . this just would not be workable

• for anyone to come along and demand that I remove all their photos immediately (or even over the course of a few days, weeks or months) is impossible and unfair -- it will damage the website; it will waste too much of my personal time; it sets a bad precedent . . . you can take your marbles and go home, but you can't take my marbles or the marbles that you contributed to the group.

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: What about not just ?s but statements made
: about others that do not ask but STATE that
: there are bad watch folks that make fakes. I
: do not know or have even converced with this
: AMH and not sure if I know if I ever saw a
: post from them. But come on, fill us in on
: why you guys both are so up in arms and
: frankly bumming out your site with this
: legal stuff in child like ways Na na na.
: *******It seems to me he also may not be
: from USA*** "so has real ?s why could
: we not tell him how nice and important Hans
: and his wife have been to our
: comunity." ( I wish I knew how to
: underline like C. M did. I would underline
: the above!) why dont you remove it all, if
: you have personal issues its your site But
: if this is the way people can turn on you
: its not fun and who needs it. and I bet
: nobody wants to come abourd an read it.

: I see no crime on this guys post,, just some ?s
: to quench there curiosity. I have seen on
: this bourd and I know of others who have had
: comebacks from PROTIME, There was not a big
: deal. it happens maybe this AMT poster had
: sent something to Protime and had a bad
: experance. That was out of Hans hands.. Come
: on guys You know it happens.
: I am not and have never stated names about bad
: workmanship unless there real hacks.( and I
: know 1st hand "1st hand")

: I posted some Longines split timers of only 600
: ever made, there own Movement. Why and how
: did I end up with half a dozen for
: restoration.. Because maybe the US servise
: repair facility could not do it coreccly and
: tred sending them to the homeland only to
: have them disappear ( I read stolen) No
: names But it happens with the best of them.
: so it seems one can not ask even a ? Or is
: there something else going on. My wish is if
: its personal take it off of here. , No ifs
: and or buts. Please this was to heavy and
: Rued and frankly a bit scary with the
: haveing to hide behind lawyer talk, I
: personaly do not like that and if all these
: new web sites have to work like this its a
: shame and that whats wrong with Ebay. all
: you get from them is form letters with
: lawyer speak. and I have over 300 in 2 names
: and I have 100% feedback so I have no issues
: with problems just a statment. I hope I have
: not overstepped my bounds in some folks
: eyes.