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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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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.

--
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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"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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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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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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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...).

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....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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(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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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.