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I am very confused after finding a forum "badged" as the "television magazine". After subscribing to the poper mag for many years (and working in the industry for DER, then self), and when it was tech at home then back to whatever etc, the forum deems I am not worthy to be a member? I say, stuff you! I moved on to servicing other fields of electronic equipment, making a very good living from it too now. The old "keep it to yourself" brown goods bodgers get all they deserve with this narrow minded attitude. I only wanted to join to see Don B's service rants again. Carl Roberts |
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wrote in message ... I am very confused after finding a forum "badged" as the "television magazine". After subscribing to the poper mag for many years (and working in the industry for DER, then self), and when it was tech at home then back to whatever etc, the forum deems I am not worthy to be a member? I say, stuff you! I moved on to servicing other fields of electronic equipment, making a very good living from it too now. The old "keep it to yourself" brown goods bodgers get all they deserve with this narrow minded attitude. I only wanted to join to see Don B's service rants again. Carl Roberts Do yourself a favour and stick to unmoderated Usenet :-) Last year I signed up to the web forums at http://www.vintage-radio.net/ to ask if anyone could identify a half-remembered transistor radio from a pencil sketch I posted. Quick as a flash I get this PM from the mod. " date of birth It has been noted by the moderators that, whereas you give 01-01-1966 as your date of birth in your user profile, in your post about a 1950s radio, you say: Quote: Originally Posted by rambo1152 I had this radio when I was 7 in 1960. Presumably, it is the date given in your profile which is incorrect. As we do not accept such fictional information in user profiles, could we ask that you correct it, Thank you. Dave Moll Forum Moderation Team. " Now look, when I filled out my Census form I put my correct date of birth, but when availing myself of ad-hoc services on the Interweb I prefer a degree of anonymity. I'm not paranoid about it, it's just my preference where possible. Like you I take the attitude that it's *their* loss Incidentally I got a reply about the radio which enabled me to identify it beyond doubt, it was a highly collectable black Emerson 888 Vanguard http://www.jamesbutters.com/emerson888vanguard.htm Isn't it lovely? I wish I still had it. -- Graham. %Profound_observation% |
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Graham. wrote:
It has been noted by the moderators that, whereas you give 01-01-1966 as your date of birth in your user profile, in your post about a 1950s radio, you say: Quote: Originally Posted by rambo1152 I had this radio when I was 7 in 1960. Presumably, it is the date given in your profile which is incorrect. As we do not accept such fictional information in user profiles, could we ask that you correct it, Thank you. Dave Moll Forum Moderation Team. ****ing hell, there's some prodnosed ****s about! These people must be very short of something to do. Bill |
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On Thu, 7 Apr 2011 16:56:12 +0100, "Graham." wrote:
Quick as a flash I get this PM from the mod. " date of birth It has been noted by the moderators that, whereas you give 01-01-1966 as your date of birth in your user profile, in your post about a 1950s radio, you say: Quote: Originally Posted by rambo1152 I had this radio when I was 7 in 1960. Presumably, it is the date given in your profile which is incorrect. As we do not accept such fictional information in user profiles, could we ask that you correct it, Thank you. Dave Moll Forum Moderation Team. " Yes, that's one of the problems with web forums: those who run them often turn into power mad dictators. -- Martin Jay |
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Graham. wrote:
Presumably, it is the date given in your profile which is incorrect. As we do not accept such fictional information in user profiles, could we ask that you correct it, Thank you. Unfortunately too many people are seduced by the relative fashionability of web forums, but they are basically advertising vehicles, so having correct demographics and ensuring that you can track people by their login, even if they keep eating their cookies, helps the advertisers. I keep finding bad information on forums, but I'm not prepared to correct it because I don't want go through the user-id/password hassle. |
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wrote in message ... I am very confused after finding a forum "badged" as the "television magazine". After subscribing to the poper mag for many years (and working in the industry for DER, then self), and when it was tech at home then back to whatever etc, the forum deems I am not worthy to be a member? I say, stuff you! I moved on to servicing other fields of electronic equipment, making a very good living from it too now. The old "keep it to yourself" brown goods bodgers get all they deserve with this narrow minded attitude. I only wanted to join to see Don B's service rants again. No doubt you already know the original Television magazine went tits up, when it was reincarnated the new publishers invited me as a previous regular reader and contributor to subscribe. They refused to pay the high distribution costs of the cartel that supplies the newsagents so the paper edition was only available through 1 or 2 component suppliers which levvy a minimum order charge. The e-version can only be viewed directly on their server once you've paid the subscription, you can't save it to your local HDD - in effect you don't buy it, you only rent it. I declined their invitation and thought little more about it, but now I am curious to know whether it survived in that format. |
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In message on Thu, 7 Apr 2011 16:56:12 +0100
Graham. wrote: Do yourself a favour and stick to unmoderated Usenet :-) Last year I signed up to the web forums at http://www.vintage-radio.net/ to ask if anyone could identify a half-remembered transistor radio from a pencil sketch I posted. Quick as a flash I get this PM from the mod. " date of birth It has been noted by the moderators that, whereas you give 01-01-1966 as your date of birth in your user profile, in your post about a 1950s radio, you say: Quote: Originally Posted by rambo1152 I had this radio when I was 7 in 1960. Presumably, it is the date given in your profile which is incorrect. As we do not accept such fictional information in user profiles, could we ask that you correct it, Thank you. Dave Moll Forum Moderation Team. " Well, the date obviously was wrong, so why not correct it? It is a very friendly and useful forum but, being moderated, is a bit stricter than usenet. Topic drift is frowned on - but if the subject matter is appropriate to another section of the forum, it simply gets moved there, with a copy left in the original section so that it can still be tracked/traced. If you choose to disagree with this, it's a free world and you are entitled to move on as you wish ... Now look, when I filled out my Census form I put my correct date of birth, but when availing myself of ad-hoc services on the Interweb I prefer a degree of anonymity. I'm not paranoid about it, No? It does rather sound like it ...! -- Terry |
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"Terry Casey" wrote in message ... In message on Thu, 7 Apr 2011 16:56:12 +0100 Graham. wrote: Do yourself a favour and stick to unmoderated Usenet :-) Last year I signed up to the web forums at http://www.vintage-radio.net/ to ask if anyone could identify a half-remembered transistor radio from a pencil sketch I posted. Quick as a flash I get this PM from the mod. " date of birth It has been noted by the moderators that, whereas you give 01-01-1966 as your date of birth in your user profile, in your post about a 1950s radio, you say: Quote: Originally Posted by rambo1152 I had this radio when I was 7 in 1960. Presumably, it is the date given in your profile which is incorrect. As we do not accept such fictional information in user profiles, could we ask that you correct it, Thank you. Dave Moll Forum Moderation Team. " Well, the date obviously was wrong, so why not correct it? It is a very friendly and useful forum but, being moderated, is a bit stricter than usenet. Topic drift is frowned on - but if the subject matter is appropriate to another section of the forum, it simply gets moved there, with a copy left in the original section so that it can still be tracked/traced. If you choose to disagree with this, it's a free world and you are entitled to move on as you wish ... Now look, when I filled out my Census form I put my correct date of birth, but when availing myself of ad-hoc services on the Interweb I prefer a degree of anonymity. I'm not paranoid about it, No? It does rather sound like it ...! -- Terry Oh yes? Remember this? http://snipurl.com/27r4wa Not paranoia, just doing things on my own terms, and come on, the guy cross-matched the content of my message with my profile FFS -- Graham. %Profound_observation% |
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