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Ski Club follows North Korea!
The Ski Club of GB has decided to close its chatroom to the outside
world. The website claims the change was made today to preserve a fantastic resource that contains "extremely valuable information about resorts, ski schools, websites, equipment, accommodation, and a lot of general chit" Although it seems the real reason was a lame-ass Microsoft based user interface that let imposters register the same usernames as existing members and then post insulting messages. I'm sure you will join me in welcoming any Ski Club chat refugees that wind up here. |
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Ski Club follows North Korea!
"David Off" wrote in message om... | The Ski Club of GB has decided to close its chatroom to the outside | world. The website claims the change was made today to preserve a | fantastic resource that contains "extremely valuable information about | resorts, ski schools, websites, equipment, accommodation, and a lot of | general chit" | | Although it seems the real reason was a lame-ass Microsoft based user | interface that let imposters register the same usernames as existing | members and then post insulting messages. | What, no password to go with the username? | I'm sure you will join me in welcoming any Ski Club chat refugees that | wind up here. The more the merrier.... By the way, whatever happened to the proposed uk.rec.skiing, anyone know? Pete www.skiclublesarcs.com |
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Ski Club follows North Korea!
Ace wrote:
On 5 Feb 2004 06:14:39 -0800, (David Off) wrote: The Ski Club of GB has decided to close its chatroom to the outside world. The website claims the change was made today to preserve a fantastic resource that contains "extremely valuable information about resorts, ski schools, websites, equipment, accommodation, and a lot of general chit" Although it seems the real reason was a lame-ass Microsoft based user interface that let imposters register the same usernames as existing members and then post insulting messages. I'm sure you will join me in welcoming any Ski Club chat refugees that wind up here. Well it was particularly unusable, it has to be said. But it was generating an impressive amount of traffic, nonetheless. Yes, it is a shame that some people had to abuse the forum and some of the members. I realise that the SC and its members fund the site and the SC politburo can do as it damn well pleases but I think it was a bit precipitous to just close things like that. There are lots of solutions if funding is the real problem, such as google ads. The 60K + posts (which, as you say, is a very impressive figure) were not all generated by SC members. It is a bit like getting people to contribute to an open source software project, then closing it and selling their efforts. Anyway I hope the remaining members keep things active. David |
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Ski Club follows North Korea!
David Off wrote:
Ace wrote: On 5 Feb 2004 06:14:39 -0800, (David Off) wrote: The Ski Club of GB has decided to close its chatroom to the outside world. The website claims the change was made today to preserve a fantastic resource that contains "extremely valuable information about resorts, ski schools, websites, equipment, accommodation, and a lot of general chit" Although it seems the real reason was a lame-ass Microsoft based user interface that let imposters register the same usernames as existing members and then post insulting messages. I'm sure you will join me in welcoming any Ski Club chat refugees that wind up here. Well it was particularly unusable, it has to be said. But it was generating an impressive amount of traffic, nonetheless. Yes, it is a shame that some people had to abuse the forum and some of the members. I realise that the SC and its members fund the site and the SC politburo can do as it damn well pleases but I think it was a bit precipitous to just close things like that. There are lots of solutions if funding is the real problem, such as google ads. The 60K + posts (which, as you say, is a very impressive figure) were not all generated by SC members. It is a bit like getting people to contribute to an open source software project, then closing it and selling their efforts. Anyway I hope the remaining members keep things active. Well, I just tried to get into the forums but I just end up in a loop with the page saying that only members can use the forums 'click here to log in' and upon clicking the link it tells me I'm already logged in and do I want to log out. I can't seem to actually find any forums at all now. Some quaility threads on the go in there but the whole web forum thing (and their version in particular) makes it nigh on impossible to actually look for any replies, you normally have to go through the whole disjointed thread to find just one response. -- James... www.jameshart.co.uk |
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Ski Club follows North Korea!
Does seem an odd decision apparently taken by people who either don't
use the fora or who want to keep it to themselves (can't have the wrong sort of skiers...). Ski Club follows North Korea! ....hopefully the paranoia won't go as far as WMD... we might need to invade Wimbledon? -- J2Dave http://www.j2ski.com/portal/forum.php (Portal for the Independent Skier) |
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Ski Club follows North Korea!
(David Off) wrote in message . com...
The Ski Club of GB has decided to close its chatroom to the outside world. The website claims the change was made today to preserve a fantastic resource that contains "extremely valuable information about resorts, ski schools, websites, equipment, accommodation, and a lot of general chit" Although it seems the real reason was a lame-ass Microsoft based user interface that let imposters register the same usernames as existing members and then post insulting messages. I'm sure you will join me in welcoming any Ski Club chat refugees that wind up here. I'm a SCGB Non-Member Chat Refugee and very pleased to find another forum. If you feel strongly that their closing of the public area to non-members was not a good idea, you can always email to the address given at the bottom of their home page (www.skiclub.co.uk) to register your feelings |
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Ski Club follows North Korea!
On 9 Feb 2004 06:55:37 -0800, (Ian Smith)
wrote: (David Off) wrote in message . com... The Ski Club of GB has decided to close its chatroom to the outside world. Although it seems the real reason was a lame-ass Microsoft based user interface that let imposters register the same usernames as existing members and then post insulting messages. I'm sure you will join me in welcoming any Ski Club chat refugees that wind up here. I'm a SCGB Non-Member Chat Refugee and very pleased to find another forum. Ahh, looks like someone was taking some notice then :-) I did gently trry and point out that this would perhaps be a better forum anyway. The whole idea of internet 'discussion boards' is crazy, IMO, when Usenet's been around for so long and is so esy to use... -- Ace (brucedotrogers a.t rochedotcom) Ski Club of Great Britain - http://www.skiclub.co.uk All opinions expressed are personal and in no way represent those of the Ski Club. |
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