Brummie Cabbie wrote:
If it wasn't a secret, then why was there no author's name on the document, even in pseudonym form?
You didn't exactly publish the fact that you wrote it, did you.
Well back then all the forum regulars knew that Dusty was the author, although the document's preparation was a joint effort.
But orginally TDO was intended to be a sort of online magazine with opinion pieces, papers and the like and they were authored as 'Taxi Driver Online', thus a bit like a report by maybe the NTA or a union where the author isn't specifically named.
And the forum bit was intended to discuss the issues, um, professionally, maybe a bit like an online Law Commission meeting or whatever, to use a present day comparison.
But that was in the early days of the internet, and clearly like many online publications and discussion forums generally things didn't go quite as planned, and in particular it became obvious that to make the forum a bit more professional and civilised would have effectively shut it down completely. Put simply, no one wanted to 'play nice'.
So effectively it was the 'warts and all' approach or no discussion at all.
Which is all a bit by the by, but perhaps useful background information for those who weren't here at the start.