While some people were naturally annoyed about their perception of the inequities of the deletion process I don't think it was ever so big an issue as some made it out to be.

I gather from some comments posted here that the blind deletion issue, aka "sandboxing" is still going on.

I also heard that very early this year changes were made so that attribution no longer disappears when an account is locked or deleted, but as far as I know attribution has not been restored for past deletees. It's probably moot now unless someone were planning on writing a book and needed clear acknowledgment of their ownership of their postings - not likely but remotely possible.

Again from recent posts PJ still seems to have certain attitudes and viewpoints which some here would find ... less than overwhelmingly logical. But by now we should all know that.

Basically while very much acknowledging the past value of GL in enlightening the business and trade press to the weaknesses of SCOX's arguments and legal positions, IMO it's days of paramount significance are gone.

GL still is a valued source of info and commentary for many, of course, but SCOX is dead, simply waiting to be embalmed by the Nazgul under Kimball's eye. Often news and more and more detailed (if harder to wade through) commentary and analysis of any news happens here (Yahoo SCOX board) than at GL.

The only reason for this post is that I pointed you to my article and decided to write this recap of recent events to post as a comment to the article, just in case anyone stumbles across it.