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Sondwave. In the 'good old days' of the "Classical Music on Radio 3" board. That was the sole board posted on by many contributors. Nearest thing to that today is, I would guess, the Tchaikovsky board.
Believe it or not, Anna was a bit shy about posting at first.
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« Reply #106 on: 21:18:23, 01-03-2007 » |
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I honestly can't see why the Proms board cannot be left in place year-round? Surely Britain's premier Music Festival deserves at least this? And there are legitimate discussion-topics which might go on year-round... rebroadcasts of famous Proms performances, discussion of the programming, ideas and suggestions for what deserves to be included in future, people seeking information about performances or performers in previous seasons or even long ago...
... after all, it doesn't cost physical money (except for a tiny bit of bandwidth) to support an extra board, does it?
Yes, yes, I know... it's all a bit late now, and all the boards have been utterly scuppered in any case.
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They say travel broadens the mind - but in many cases travel has made the mind not exactly broader, but thicker.
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Believe it or not, Anna was a bit shy about posting at first.
I remember Anna in her 'young days' with all the naive questions; she's not so naive now, has grown up very quickly  Regarding conspiracy theories, it is strange when so many 'new members' appear at 'critical' times. The strangest episode of that type was when Chris Evans joined Radio 2. Many of the regulars at R2MB S&M began contributing to an anti-Evans thread and within weeks the number of postings had swelled to over 1000, and many were essentially one-post wonders who had 'registered in order to express their disgust at his apppointment'. Now, all those one-post wonders could have been screen-names created by genuine disgusted Johnnie Walker fans/listeners, or by frightened BBC producers, or by Terry Wogan himself, nobody knows ............ |
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« Reply #108 on: 21:50:54, 01-03-2007 » |
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The proof of their fakeness is that none of them go through a pre-mod period as new members.
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« Reply #109 on: 22:08:22, 01-03-2007 » |
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> The proof of their fakeness is that none of them go through a pre-mod period as new members.
Er, couldn't that just mean that they generally post on other BBC boards (so they're out of pre-mod) but have been moved to post now by the boards massacre? - Sorry if I've missed the point here...
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« Reply #110 on: 22:22:49, 01-03-2007 » |
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I was under the impression that you went into pre-mod on CMOR3 even if you'd earned your spurs elsewhere? That may have changed, of course. Even so, there remains the question - why did a pile of people with no past record of posting on CMOR3, or no obvious interest or knowledge in what R3 broadcasts, suddenly come piling onto the board on 19th Feb?
People like "Pelsenaire", who blathers about the presenters of the Third Programme of yesterday who "knew their Latin", and attacks presenters like Rob Cowan (not understanding, or ignoring, the quality of what RC injects into programmes from his knowledge and understanding of the repertoire).
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« Reply #111 on: 22:29:21, 01-03-2007 » |
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So what do you think is going on, Reiner?
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« Reply #112 on: 22:42:32, 01-03-2007 » |
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Blimey. I've just been over there on one my regular visits with some grapes and a bunch of flowers to see how things are going and the conspiracy theorists seem to have taken over the hospital. The nurses were all tied up in the laundry-room and all the hapless new patients are being interrogated mercilessly by teams of regulars until they admit to being double agents working for, er (... it gets a bit hazy at that point but it's definitely a plot whatever it is). I may have misunderstood this but dear old Draco M seems to have got them down as agents provocateurs, in the pay of the Roger Wright, who is himself acting unwillingly under orders from the BBC Board of Trustees, deliberately to infiltrate the R3 Message Boards and pretend to criticise the BBC, so that.....um, stay with me.....the real complainers are tricked into overplaying their hand by doing something awful to Stephanie Hughes, which would allow them to be arrested and the Message Boards closed down to popular acclaim by a grateful nation. I think that's roughly it.
Mind you, once it's explained, it does look highly plausible....... Come to think of it, if I were organising a military coup I think I might well want to start by taking control of the R3 Classical Music MBs <scalesfallingfromeyesatlastemoticon>
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« Reply #113 on: 22:53:48, 01-03-2007 » |
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Paranoia has set in now then?
I went over there earlier today to have a look but, oh dear! What a sad shadow of their former selves those boards are now. What a shame to reduce them to such chaos and discontent. Whomsoever the new influx may be, they've done nothing to enhance the new set-up. I can see them being closed down altogether.
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We pass this way but once. This is not a rehearsal!
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« Reply #114 on: 22:57:26, 01-03-2007 » |
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Is it possible that more and more people are buying computers now and they want to join the board?
I did not know there are so many lovers of classical music and many are very nasty.
May be I am trusty rusty.
Is it possible that they were premoded. I noticed that there were many posts lately that one could not read right away.
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« Reply #115 on: 23:01:54, 01-03-2007 » |
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George - you'll remember The Prisoner. Or Kafka's The Trial. Or The Castle. Or Matrix.
It's all really rather boring now. Despite Michael's best endeavours here, I still really rather hanker after the Old Boards. I feel like I'm part of the Diaspora, if that's what I'm thinking of. Or a Ugandan Asian, without wishing to make facile analogies about real human suffering. But you get my point. I rather supect I'm going to have to get used to the idea that r3ok is the new Old Board now, really. And I'm very grateful. I just wish the rest of the remaining resistance fighters would get their arses over here and have done with it. What lies over there is just a bloody shambles now q:o(
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« Reply #116 on: 23:06:38, 01-03-2007 » |
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I feel like I'm part of the Diaspora, if that's what I'm thinking of. I've the feeling that for some people it was rather the Galut.  |
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"People hate anything well made. It gives them a guilty conscience." John Betjeman
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« Reply #117 on: 23:19:48, 01-03-2007 » |
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I feel bruised, George! And I had you down as a witty mate!
I was trying vainly to convince myself that there really was some kind of plan, or intelligence behind the wilfully random moddings that are laying about themselves, and the only thing I could think of was that infiltration was the answer. Of course, it could just be a kind of gleeful scatter gun approach pour encourager les autres
It feels like Paris after the Russian Revolution.
What has kept striking me all day is the huge gulf between the quality of what R3 is actually putting out all day and the miserably diminished isthmus of credibility that the new mb's give that terrific output.
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« Reply #118 on: 23:44:17, 01-03-2007 » |
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You're performing an absolutely heroic stand against what's going on. Every time I drop in to post my tuppence worth (pre-decimal coinage, t-p), there you are at it like Achilles against the Skamander with hardly a Myrmidon in tow. Bless you.
Ron
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CRAZY CENSORSHIP ON THE BBC MESSAGEBOARDS!My screen name was reset by the Moderators today because I am (apparently) impersonating somebody posting as "The Cockney Rebel". Perhaps they think I'm trying to impersonate Steve Harley? Or maybe it was he who complained? I tell you, it's pathetic on those poxy BBC boards now. The censorship is getting worse. I posted a lovely topic on the Radio 2 messageboard on the first night of Russell Davies' Sunday night show. The topic accumulated a few replies but the opening post was removed for being "off topic" (even though I praised Davies' playlist and talked about it). I give up, I really do. I have therefore changed my screen name (as requested by the Moderators) and decided to promote Sean Rafferty. I wonder if I will get my legs slapped for that?  Green Eyed Auntie clearly means business.
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