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Yes, exactly Thomas. Thanks.

Dave never forbade the use of the word ebay or linking to it in the 18 years that I've been here. I don't know how that factoid got turned from a joke to an edict. I do know that around a dozen years ago, there were two guys using the forum to advertise their ebay sales. One had two ebay handles, one to buy and one to sell. The other guy got after the first one to the point of posting as another person to bolster his complaints. I personally thought they were both valuable members of the community who helped many of the rest of us fix our aging calculators. The whole thing was a bit much though. So eventually three things got done.

Dave asked that we all identify our ebay handle if we were beating our own drum.
He also initiated the registration system required to post, one person / one registration.
He also asked that we "Do not post links to ebay or other auction sites" in the classifieds.

Ebay auctions ARE mentioned and linked here if someone finds one interesting. Lots of people have mentioned they have a product to sell, such as a hand made calc, replacement part, or an iphone app. It all seems to be OK. I've even seen a couple of long time members following the old rule and identifying an auction as theirs and stating their ebay name.

Mentioning Warren's site has never been an issue but as your link pointed out: printing a direct link to it should not be done. You'd think that HP would see any active user group or site for a 38 year old calculator as a feather in their cap, and the calculator division clearly does. The possibility of corporate lawyers out to prove how "smart" they are (at the expense of the company's interests) are another thing though.

(12-17-2017 12:20 PM)Thomas Okken Wrote:  

(12-17-2017 12:07 PM)Maximilian Hohmann Wrote:  You maybe but certainly not "we". I will rather de-register from this forum than call eBay (or anything else) anything but it's real name.

Go ahead, then, and call TOS by its real name on this forum, if you're so principled. :-)

Calling eBay TAS is tongue-in-cheek, not doublespeak. Nothing to get worked up about. OK, so I shouldn't have said "we" but "many people here". I never call eBay TAS myself, but again, I've also never thought of that alias as being anything other than humorous, not something emotionally charged.

UPDATE: For those who don't know what the TOS (not TAS) thing is about, see this thread.
ANOTHER UPDATE: I think this is the post on the old forum that Dave Hicks was referring to in that thread: http://www.hpmuseum.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/...524#193524.