Dear fellow simmers,It is not with pleasure that I have to confirm this: sim-route.com relays its queries to the RouteFinder and in practice uses our datacenter resources for that webmaster's advantage.Potentially this may even become a financial exploitation as it is clear (at least in my opinion) that the webmaster wants to attract advertisements on that page.At first I just watched and wondered how far this would go.Then sim-route started to be announced in "big style".And I published an announcement on the RouteFinder frontpage, so that at least visiting people would know what was going on.After several days passed, this morning (seeing no feedback from the offender and no change in attitude at all) I have started to return fake data to sim-route.Now, I come back from a busy morning at the airfield and see that sim-route's webmaster loaded his getroute.php script on another server he maintains (binddate.co.uk) so that he can exploit RouteFinder from a different IP address.This will probably happen again and at some point he will find a way to force us to either accept this exploitation, or shut down the resource.I don't like to advertise RouteFinder, and also don't like to put advertisements on its pages. It existed for such a long time that whoever needs it, knows that it exists by now, and that it's a very light and quick tool to use (and far from perfect -- no doubt).The time for advertising will come when and if RouteFinder evolves.. but not right now. But still, the exploiter found it appropriate to advertise itself very well. Funny world...I think it would be fair to let everyone know what the offender is doing. I am not seeking free advertisement for RouteFinder, so you can omit the name of this resource if you ever decide to rectify the sim-route announcement.But if possible, again, I think it would be fair to at least expose the problem (without offending anyone, just stating the findings) so that everyone can think and draw their conclusions.This is not the first time it happens, but by now it's getting tiresome. Even a flight handling company some time ago tried to package a re-branded proprietary interface to RouteFinder and sell it. To real airline companies. Go figure. Excuse me for venting... and have a nice sunday.Kind Regards,Davide GiacopelloRouteFinder teamASA srl - Italy
