I discovered the ASLML about the same time I discovered the personal computer and the internet and the fact that I wasn't locked out of wargaming after moving away from Toronto and a decent place to buy wargaming goods.
Where I live now (which is where I grew up prior to living in Toronto for a few years) is something of the middle of cottage country central ontario, nad hardly wargaming heaven as far as stores go.
So the ASLML was naturally cool (so I thought initially). But I missed out on all these much known to some flame wars.
I was driven off by people who to term correctly would require terms unsuitable for the forum here.
It has NOTHING to do directly with ASL in fact. It was 100% as a result of the people on it at that time being nothing better than pure scum.
I had met 1 or 2 persons worthy of generous praise, but I found much to my disgust, that the majority deserved to spend their lives isolated in a room alone with nothing but their PC as I see it. I frankly would not enjoy meeting them in person. Generally, people are truely what they seem.
I for instance, don't hold onto any belief, that the person you are n the net, is in any way different from the guy you are in person at home or at work. We ain't just hiding behind a monitor safe knowing we can turn off the system and all is magically made different.
People really are what they show themselves to be.
I had only made reference to Rememberence Day, or I guess to a Yank Memorial Day, and what I thought might be a nice way to observe it.
I was instantly branded a commie nazi and all manner of contradictory terms that only illustrated that both my countrymen as well as the US members were both jerks of the most undesirable sort, but not even sifficiently bright enough to understand how stupid a phrase like "commie nazi" truely is.
And it wasn't just a few remarks, it was a veritable barrage.
I have never forgiven the ASLML for it, and it is unlikely I ever will.
Thus, this forum and Warfare HQ will do just fine. I think it's superior, easier to use, easier to read, easier to manage.
And for those that are part of the ASLML today, you are eiother the scum I knew then, or you have since joined, and will just have to pay for the actions of past scum that have permanently sullied the name ASLML.
You might be part of this forum and Warfare HQ while using the ASLML, but you will really have to contend with the fact, that to me, the ASLML simply doesn't exist. I wouldn't miss it if it disappeared.
Sorry for the rant, but I want people to realise, it isn't always an argument over copywrite and/or who is doing what with ASL.
Sometimes it is purely the result of members being fine examples of all that makes the world lousy sometimes.