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Email dated Fri 12/28/2007 1:38 PM from Bob LLewellyn [forex_assistant@yahoo.com] informing me that I was in effect being banned for raising my concerns about the poor programming of the Gap Trader EA - Read My Reply
Steve, 

I know that you have been on the forum and posted several times helping others understand different aspects.  I don't know what your aims and goals in life are, but here we're trying to help people. 

Just for your own knowledge, I took your last post (below) to be critical and aggressive, and therefore have placed you on moderated status; if it wasn't intended to be that way let me apologize, but that is how it seemed to me.  
"From: "keyconcept66" <steve@...>
Date: Thu Dec 27, 2007 9:59 pm 
Subject: Re: Important: Please Read...
So which is it Jerry? 
In post 2801 Bob tells how you explained the zero/manual 
reset 'feature' as an "essential feature" of the EA and 
then a mere 6/7 hrs later you announce how you've fixed 
the "problem".
So again I ask you, is it an "essential feature" or, as 
I and many others suggested, a "problem". L"
It isn't 'which is it?' as you questioned, it was both.  Let me explain ...
Because there has never been a system like this one that we have created, we had no way to know what people would want in a tool to trade this new system. 
Naturally we designed the system for our preferences, and have been using it this way for several months now.  There were some redundant safety features in the beginning, the shadow profit would set to zero when we first turned it on because it always comes on at zero, we also had other checks in place to make sure that we didn't do something that was going to cause a problem with our accounts. 

Jerry has been working on this new release since earlier in the month (not continuously though because it is a holiday season) following the last update. 
He called me and asked how soon I thought that we should release a new upgrade and what features we wanted in it.  We discussed your letter of this morning.  I personally was perfectly happy with doing an F7 ok to kick start the shadow profit because I knew why it was there.  However we decided to go with the option of having the shadow profit start right up instead of going through those redundant security features that it had started with.  With this new release it will now be critically important to make sure the EA button is off before making any changes, shutting down, or turning on the MT4. 
It wasn't so important before because of the safety features involved, but we couldn't have it both ways.  Because of our discussion, and the fact that a lot of newbies had difficulty understanding how to get their shadow profits moving, we decided to change the way it was done.  Once we made this decision, it only took Jerry probably about 15 minutes to make this small change.  Remember, he asked me what I thought was the better option, and it was my decision to change it.  This then is the reason why in just 6/7 of an hour he was able to post something different than from what I had originally written.  So in a nutshell, what was a 'problem' to you was a 'feature' to us. 

Now I believe I have answered your question.  We do not want to censor any posts with legitimate questions or different ideas because that is exactly what we're all about, but we do emphasize courtesy on this board.  As long as I see that you're coming posts are courteous and are responding with the intent of helping someone, I will be happy to remove the moderated status.  As I stated above, we took your last post to be critical, if it wasn't intended to be that way, then I sincerely do apologize. 

Yours, Bob