No exception will be granted to you, and it's a little late for your concern with complying with the rules.

 

Regardless of whether or not you think it appropriate we do not allow posting of one's own URLs. Some of the most zealous spammers of our boards are not commercial sites but other varying personal interests.

 

This is, in fact, the standard we maintain, and we have found that we typically only lose persons whose only interest in this website is to use it as a vehicle to solicit visitors.

 

We do not have a problem with losing such members as we are disinterested in serving as such a vehicle in the first place.

 

See, if you really want to discuss history you can posts your texts, if however your interest is in getting visitors then there is incompatibility with the rules.

 

The rules do not hamper the discussion you were pursuing, just the invitation for visits. If your emphasis was on the latter the measures were obviously vindicated.