Thread: Official TSP Site is Blocking Us

Yer doin' a fine job. Agree or not, yours is far more organised and visually appealing than tsp.gov.

Jerks.



To make your life easier, explore the various CMSes, such as PHP-Nuke, postnuke, etc. etc. There are many of them in varying complexities.

The letter TSP.gov sent me basically said, stop linking to our site. People will think those are TSP Talk pages and not TSP.gov pages. That certainly was not my intention.

They did not ask very nicely either. I've gotten friendlier letters from the IRS. They basically said the links"must be discontinued"by June 28th.

They also said I need to ask in writing for permission to use the link to their home page. The funny thing is, I emailed them twice when I was creating the site to ask for their OK and they never replied.

I did take the links down except for the home page link, which was their request.

tsptalk wrote:

The letter TSP.gov sent me basically said, stop linking to our site. People will think those are TSP Talk pages and not TSP.gov pages. That certainly was not my intention.

Sorry to hear about TSP issues with TSP Talk...

But as for their complaint....Considering your overall layout is completely different from theirs, I don't see how anyone could be mistaken as to which site they are on at any given moment. You've done a lot of work (good job :^)in trying to make things easier for all TSP'ers and it's a shame they are giving you such greif over it.

If one is confused by your links, then they will be hopelessly confused by tsp.gov's site; it's a POS. It would be more fitting if tsp.gov were done in crayon.


The crayon part has me LOL, HaHaHa.....Rolo strikes again! -

Does anyone recall the cluelessportrait of the woman vacuously staring at the chart? It was down right insulting but it showed what TSP thinks about TSP participants. Now the new and improved site has a bullhovering next tothe chart. Iguess this isone of the improvements. Thefund fact sheets were an improvement as they may help to educate participants. The TSP board should visit Vanguard's website for some ideas about educating participants.

hehe, Pete.

Yes, I know the graphic you are talking about. It took them a week to change it and they had horked it for a while...the bull graphic was distorted for days.


[line]


Tom, I would have left the links there for the principle of it. :dude: But that's just me.

A simple footnote stating that the links are not part of TSPTalk would solve the problem, in the event that someone so brain-dead could actually operate a computer in the first place, browse to the site, and actually confuse tsptalk.com with tsp.gov. I suppose such measures should be taken when dealing with a group of government employees. :u

haha, Hey!If I make a TSP.gov links page, would you link to it, Tom? muahaha

Next thing you know, they will be complaining about "TSP Talk", because Tom is helping so many folks make $$$ with their TSPs!

You watch, they will place a disclaimer on their own site "disowning" TSP Talk. :P

"We do not endorse "TSP Talk" ... blah blah blah blah blah

I'm sure they have their "spies" on this site.

God Bless:^

Rolo wrote:

Tom, I would have left the links there for the principle of it. :dude: But that's just me.

The tone of the letter made it sound like I'd be visited by men in black if I didn't cooperate. :s

Next thing you know, they will be complaining about "TSP Talk", because Tom is helping so many folks make $$$ with their TSPs!

I don't think they care if we make money or not. It's the extra work we make for them by making frequent transfers.

tsptalk wrote:

The tone of the letter made it sound like I'd be visited by men in black if I didn't cooperate. :s

Oh, now I definitely would have left them on there! :P



bees...honey...vinegar...ya.