David,
I still don't see how or why the "issue" got out of hand in your
opinion. We stated why we think it makes no sense to keep rtrank
alive as would essentially be add-on Relay baggage.
We did so publicly and by consent of all mailing list members,
including yourself, or at least you had no objections when we
were discussing the final form and "tone" of our statement.
Again, "pulling the plug" by redirecting a domain name won't shut
down RT rank. As I stated in an earlier post, it's alive and well at
http://www.racesimcentral.net/
Regards,
Uwe