2008/12/2 Julian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > "Steve Haywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 2008/12/2 Adrian Stott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >> "Steve Haywood" > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> >Adrian, I have heard a rumour that at the same time you were writing in > >> the > >> >waterways press and arguing on this list in favour of the moorings > >> >auction > >> >that you were in discussions with BW about running the scheme. Is that > >> true? > >> > >> Yes. > >> > >> After BW decided to pilot bidding for moorings, it advertised for > >> contractors to build the tenders part of the BW web site. In > >> response, my business put in a proposal to build an external moorings > >> auction (or tender) site at our risk and expense, on which BW could > >> post its vacancies on a flat-fee-per-mooring-advertised basis. > >> > >> Don't you think then that you had some sort of duty to declare an > >> interest > > to us on this list and maybe even to the readers of the magazines for > > which > > you wrote that you had a financial interest in the outcome of this > debate? > > Don't you think that you should have left Adrian's post intact especially > the bit where Adrian said he had declared his interest at the time. > Rather than use selective snipping just to score points. > >
I cut his post entirely in line with how I normally cut posts and because we are encouraged to do it. However I am more than happy to reproduce the omitted paragraph to which I think you may be referring. Adrian wrote: 'Around that time, I announced this several times at BW national user meetings, and IIRC also on this ng and/or URW (but I no longer have copies of those postings).' Now he may have announced it a BW user meetings, but I personally have no recollection of him ever having announced it on this group, though I stand to be corrected on this. As far as I am concerned until this morning I didn't have confirmation of the rumours I'd been consistently hearing about this matter and which surfaced again at a meeting I attended recently. I am still left without an answer to my question as to whether the editors of the magazines for which he was writing knew he had a financial interest in this issue at the time they published his pieces. As far as I know, his pieces did not declare that interest, not was it made clear at any stage that I was hearing the views of someone who had financial stake in the outcome of an issue. But again, I am willing to accept that I am wrong on this. I can only say again that until this morning I did not know that Adrian had a financial interest in the moorings auctions issue for which he has campaigned long and hard. Did others know? Perhaps they could tell me how they knew? Steve [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
