Webslave posted on Whirlpool after your post on Whirlpool, and he did say that it was non-technical in nature, and said in another that's all is appropriate to say.
Been following that topic out of interest as the silence is deafening on the subject generally. It seems certain individuals who have had major involvement no longer do so leaving it more or less in the hands of a single admin and a few mods.
Mods don't generally have access to the hardware of any site nor, necessarily, to the nuts, bolts, dollars and cents of keeping a site going. As the Whirlpool thread also mentions they are basically ordinary members with a few special permissions.
A "non-technical" matter which has caused the complete shut down of Railpage and the consequential shutdown of those sites it, in turn, hosts, and with an absolute wall of silence, leads me to conclude that there are legal wrangles going on. These might not necessarily involve Railpage which is in turn hosted by a commercial operation and it might be the case that the root cause lies within that business. The owner of the Railpage domain is also listed as a Director of that business.
It is unusual to have had no response from anyone, including those with whom I have exchanged emails in the past, which suggests a gagging order of some sort has been imposed.
This is only my summation of the situation. It cannot be based upon hard fact since there appears to be none available. It was also noted in Whirlpool that ways around the situation were under investigation and that we haven't seen the last of Railpage.
