Television Mag

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

In message ,
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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

Assuming you know this is not a Forum, did you post here by mistake?
--
Ian

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%

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

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

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.

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.

In message on Thu, 07 Apr 2011
01:05:41 +0100
wrote:

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.


Funny, I thought that, if they let me join (which they did) anybody could!

It is more aimed at the those currently 'in the trade' than those of us that
used to be. Perhaps they've raised the bar?

I know the site has been revamped recently, perhaps free registration is no
longer available?

--

Terry

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

"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%