[RawAlex]

Just my opinions, for all they are worth:

1) Considering John Albright's outbursts on public message boards, I think it would be safe to assume that any phone call that involved cursing was not a one sided call.

2) NATS has plenty to gain from "picking a fight", specifically if they found a company who had anything but perfect accounting or other issues related to stats tracking. NATS has staked it's entire reputation on being the uncheatable no shave affiliate solution, so proving their reputation by taking on this program would be to their benefits

3) Non-payment of affiliates is, in many ways, not an issue that NATS should be concerned about, except that perhaps this disagreement puts NR in the position to not have access to the information to make those payments.

I certainly don't take sides in the issue, I was not an affiliate of NR (nor did I have any intention of being one), but I have a feeling that there is three sides to this story and the one we will never hear is the complete truth.