No need to resign Jim
You have already been fired

The tent will rest in Peace
I have always valued your input and comraderie
and since you have contacted me I will respond to this situation
1…This was a great idea and I very happy the tent has been re vitalized
(There would have been no need for revitalization had your partner (Todd) taken care of the minimal maintenance that the Tent required. Refusing to fix the link to Poster Paradise off the home page, after being asked to do so several times, so that people who might have wanted to sign up or just log in again was part and parcel of the reason the Tent decayed.)
2…This was a must..the tent was unattended by a webmaster and was in decay
(It was not just unattended by the webmaster and your partner Todd – I believe it was planned destruction of the Tent ! And you allowed your PARTNER to do it with his trashing of the archives, destroying the home page, failing to fix the links.)
3…it was so bad I couldn’t bear to even go there…such a dreadful negative place
(And some people who might have wanted to go there – could not because your PARTNER Todd refused to maintain the links.)
4…Yes we set up Rambus on the same server…and we didn’t feel it necessary to
tell anybody…( You say that like it is a badge of honor or something Gary! In fact, in your infamous email you said to Todd, “We got to be careful here re Rambus. Just you and I know its on the GT server.”Why warn Todd of a need to be CAREFUL concerning the RAMBUS site and only YOU and TODD knowing it was on the GT server, IF, as you NOW say –
‘ we didn’t feel it necessary”. WHY did you not feel a NEED TO TELL John or others at the Tent but felt a need to WARN TODD to be careful? Was the Tent Todd’s or your personal property? – not telling what you were doing was being DISHONEST – If you thought it was ok and everyone would be fine with it you would have NOT SLIPPED AROUND BEHIND EVERYONE’S BACKS AND TOLD NO ONE YOU AND TODD WERE USING THE TENT SERVERS TO BUILD A PAID RAMBUS SITE) was just an experiment (BS – it was set up as a BUSINESS – whether it worked or not makes no difference – it was still a BUSINESS that YOU, TODD and RAMBUS set up on the TENT servers to save yourselves money WITHOUT TELLING ANYONE which was a lie by omission. Obviously, you believe in “don’t ask for permission” and if you get caught “beg for forgiveness”. ) and did not interfere with anybody (It interfered with EVERYONE because YOU paid less attention to the Tent and more attention to RAMBUS – TODD paid no attention to the Tent other than to remove archives and such that took up space that he needed – any request for TODD to fix the links on the sidebar or do something for the Tent were met with SILENCE – or retaliation) and didn’t cost anybody and $s (YOU and TODD built your RAMBUS business in which YOU, TODD and RAMBUS intended to make a profit, on a site and server paid for and whithout knowledge of EVERYONE WHO CONTRIBUTED to the TENTATHONS. They did not put their money into the Tentathon so that YOU, TODD and RAMBUS could build a PAY SITE FOR each of your own personal profit. Again – a lie of omission) or problems (problems previously pointed out above)…we had very little action for over a year maybe 25 members ( PAID MEMBERS for a business that YOU, TODD and RAMBUS built on a site and server bought and paid for by every member who had contributed to the tentathons and none of which knew they were supporting your personal business)
Then all of a sudden after Rambus made a great call the place stated growing exponentially
because Jim Sinclair joined the site and started promoting it in his seminars
That’s when I sent the infamous email to Todd (and inadvertently to wanka)
“We got to be careful here re Rambus. Just you and I know its on the GT server.” (Had YOU, TODD and RAMBUS been honest at the beginning it would not have been necessary for it to be kept a secret from John and EVERYONE else at the Tent)
The intent was to tell him we will pay our portion of the server costs (You failed miserably)
Of course we would let you all know what and why,,,but you found out this way (We will never know whether anyone other than YOU, TODD and RAMBUS would have been told the truth as you suggest. YOU, TODD and RAMBUS had been running a business on the Tent site and server and never told anyone. KEPT IT A SECRET ! If you had not mistakenly included John on the infamous email:
“We got to be careful here re Rambus. Just you and I know its on the GT server.” – why would you have all the sudden come out and told everyone the what and why?)
5…the bottom line is Nobody ever paid a red cent for the Rambus portion of the server (I know that YOU want to believe that – however- that is 1000% bullshit. Who paid for the server when RAMBUS was being built on the Tent site/server? TENTATHON’ers – they are SOMEBODY – they paid THOUSANDS of dollars! Who paid for the server the first year when you only had 25 paid subscribers? TENTATHON’ers – they paid every red cent , nickle, dime, quarter, dollar. YOU, TODD and RAMBUS’s personal and private business did not pay one RED CENT at that time – now – THAT is the TRUTH whether you like it, want to admit it or not! )
when we migrated last May the usage was still about 50:50 (There would have been no need for migration and extra server space had it not been for YOU and TODD building a personal business on the TENT site and server. The TENT should have never paid ANYTHING for the migration – the TENT did not need to migrate – YOU, TODD and RAMBUS’s personal business needed a bigger and faster server – NOT THE TENT. Remember the TENT was dying and use was going DOWN – NOT UP so there was no need for a migration from the TENT stand point to a bigger and faster server.)
but we paid $2400 and the tentathon paid $840
We paid more than our share (Again – I call B.S. )
in May this year we paid the whole server fee…IF the tent had continued ( and thank god it didn’t) (again proving that YOU and TODD wanted the Tent to die so that YOU and TODD did not have to deal with it).
there was to be NO tentathon
Wanka and I discussed this and he insisted we find out the exact server usage and pay accordingly
I agreed but then Todd and I discussed it and decided we would cover 100%
so I paid it all
6…If you all had come to me and insisted you were going to a new server and asked me to relinquish
my admin status..I would have agreed wholeheartedly (REALLY – you mean like the time John asked that the homepage be fixed and the link to Poster Paradise be fixed and was told by TODD to “go *uck himself!” Or the last time John asked YOU to have the link on the homepage fixed and you checked with your PARTNER TODD who said he declined to do so! Or how about the time TODD changed Ian, John and I to Editor from Administrator because he got pissed off that we asked him to fix something at the Tent.
Yeah, I can see why we would have come to you. )
7…Wanka and I suppose you and Jim as well decided to do this in secret and to make me and Todd look like crooks and villains…how pathetic but so be it. ( We didn’t have to do anything – you and Todd did it all YOURSELF in the infamous email from you to Todd.
“We got to be careful here re Rambus. Just you and I know its on the GT server.”( If it walks like a Duck and quacks like a Duck, THEN it IS a DUCK !)
8…the oasis should thrive now…but it was born of a lie
( YOU are exactly correct Gary, the Oasis was born on a lie of omission by YOU and TODD. “We got to be careful here re Rambus. Just you and I know its on the GT server.” I picked this up on the internet – could not have said it better myself
A lie of omission is the most insidious, most pervasive, and most common lie on the entire planet. Commonly, those who use this type of lie, have conned themselves into believing that to intentionally remain silent when ethical behavior calls for one to speak up is not a lie at all. In spite of overwhelming evidence that their silence deceives, misleads, and often causes untold grief and misery, they refuse to speak the truth.
9…I am a good and honest guy.. ( I believe that to be true in general Gary and before this I would have told anyone so – In this case I believe that by keeping your and Todd’s activities of building the RAMBUS paid site on Gold Tent servers a secret, intentionally trying to keep everyone else from finding out about what you and Todd were up to, by using servers that were paid for by all the Tentathon’ers to make money for yourself, Todd and Rambus, by neglecting the up keep of the Tent, by refusing to fix things at the tent that were pointed out to you and Todd. In this case, I do not believe you acted in either a good or honest way.)
I was as angry as you all when Todd basically retired from the tent (TODD is your PARTNER – the two of you have been working on the Gold Tent servers making money for several years without us knowing. Don’t you really mean Todd retired from doing anything for Gold Tent except using Gold Tent servers to make money for himself, you and Rambus)
and when because of the issue between he and John he demoted all of us all
I was able to mediate that but that’s all I could do (He is YOUR PARTNER – sure hope YOU and RAMBUS have a really good contract.)
10…I will happily participate at Oasis when I can ( That will be left up to you – we know how busy you are with running the RAMBUS for profit site you haven’t been around hardly any for a long time.)
11…After being an important Founder of Goldtent and donating thousands of hours in building and maintaining the sidebar and all the goodwill alongside you and Jim and Todd and John…I don’t deserve to be vilified (Vilified – I don’t think you are being Vilified – I think it is simply being told what YOU and your partner did that percipatated the need for the birth of the Oasis. We never knew what day we might wake up and the TENT be gone – disabled – or locked out due to your disinterest and your partner’s actions.)
I am receiving many many emails ..all positive and thankful for my efforts (Great, you deserve credit for all you did for the Tent and helping to keep things humming along – we all worked hard to make the Tent a good place to be – we all played a part in that. Well done to you and us! Of course that was before this: “We got to be careful here re Rambus. Just you and I know its on the GT server.” )
12…In the words of Richard Nixon…I am NOT a crook….(And Jim…You KNOW it !) I also know that you are not a crook Gary! Never thought you were. However, in this case I believe that you and your partner Todd made a bad decision to hide what you were doing on the Gold Tent servers instead of coming forward; therefore, you and Todd were deceitful and dishonest by not letting people know that you were using the Gold Tent for your own profit purposes.
13…Have a good day (Have a good day yourself and I wish the Rambus site success as ya’ll go forward.)
p.s. I do agree with what Larry C just posted at the Oasis. You have had your say – I have had mine, no one else wants to listen to all of it.
Good Luck!