This forum

greenspun.com : LUSENET : Unofficial Newcastle United Football Club BBS : One Thread

Who owns these BBS? Is it Ok if I put a link from my site so when someone clicks Chat it goes to Nufcbbs.com?

-- Anonymous, March 24, 2002

Answers

Jim, you'll need to speak to Macbeth (he's the administrator, I believe).

The link should be OK, the site is password protected anyway, Mac will issue the password, I guess you could too, but if a whole load of $h!t-stirrers invaded the site, all of a sudden, we'd all blame you!

Good luck, I believe the consensus on here is that new blood will always be welcome.

Your posting should be on the main ("New Answers") page now?!

-- Anonymous, March 24, 2002


I have no problem with any one linking to the site, we seem to cope okay with the password system as it is. It tends to put off the hit and run posters, the odd person will get in but we seem to have the collective will to stop them doing any long term damage.

-- Anonymous, March 24, 2002

This forum.........seems to be in terminal decline!

The evening and day after an FAC Quarter Final v Arsenal, Manu & Chelsea get beaten, and this place has been like a synagogue on Xmas Day! Less than 50 posts all day today.

OK, so we were sh**e - so what's new? Does no one feel the need to talk about it, or our chances from here on in?

No - OK, screw it, I'll go and watch the usual cr@p on t' bloody telly.

-- Anonymous, March 24, 2002


If there were only 50 postings clarky, I wouldn't be surprised if 30 of them came from myself and / or Minnesota.

It can be very frustrating when, upon opening up the BBS, there's next to no 'crack' :-(

-- Anonymous, March 24, 2002


Crap, nearly 3000 posts for me in under a year.

-- Anonymous, March 25, 2002


How do you know that Paul, the statistics page seems to be no longer accessible?

Clarky was only talking about this past Saturday and Sunday.

-- Anonymous, March 25, 2002


screacher@genie.co.uk (7479)

al_k_traz@yahoo.com (5488)

gavin_herron@hotmail.com (5111)

debuilder@hotmail.com (5051)

dougal09@hotmail.com (4812)

ciara@thegallowgate.com (4540)

rik@ntlsports.com (3237)

jestab73@hotmail.com (3162)

ian@fergs.net (3132)

paul@toonweb.co.uk (2911)

roz.sears@mailbox.co.uk (2389)

oliverfowler@excite.co.uk (2364)

gus@thegallowgate.com (2351)

softie@thegallowgate.com (2331)

ciaranufc@hotmail.com (2285)

kegsy@thegallowgate.com (2027)

pit_bill@yahoo.com (1771)

budwiser@thegallowgate.com (1586)

softie02@hotmail.com (1407)

bill_e_callaghan@emailmobil.co m (1364)

jonno@bigfoot.com (1333)

graemedelap@zfree.co.nz (1304)

lr@m-u-f-c.co.uk (1284)

lyndawright@hotmail.com (1284)

Geordie@thegallowgate.com (1171)

pilgrim@enterprise.net (1094)

rdooley@londondeanery.ac.uk (1058)

r.l.dooley@durham.ac.uk (1036)

alan.clark2@cableinet.co.uk (988)

a1georgyboy@hotmail.com (972)

pit_bill@yahoo.co.uk (951)

petemetcalfe@home.com (919)

johnsh@postmaster.co.uk (905)

rdooley@tpmde.ac.uk (888)

columbus63@hotmail.com (885)

eandj@netcentral.co.uk (875)

jaay29@hotmail.com (854)

Steph@thegallowgate.com (852)

Jonno@bigfoot.com (836)

Geordie@uk2.net (829)

b.robertson@village.uunet.be (822)

p.kann@student.qut.edu.au (807)

peter.s.miller@ukgateway.net (797)

roz.sears@btinternet.com (797)

nick.callaghan@contco.com (770)

pray@ibl.bm (745)

jizzz@madmail.com (740)

Scratchy@dailytoon.co.uk (722)

stefanrood@hotmail.com (706)

hiro_6108@hotmail.com (697)

davietelford@i12.com (666)



-- Anonymous, March 26, 2002


Thanks Bud.

With respect Paul, my comment didn't feel cr@p to me, despite what you might have thought personally. Actually, you're one of the more consistent posters, but at times only you and I are posting during the evenings and weekends.

For this bbs to stay viable, lively and interesting I really believe we need more regulars posting more consistently, and to attract a steady stream of new posters.

-- Anonymous, March 26, 2002


For what it's worth I agree with Clarky...this place has been dire for at least the last 6 months...I can hardly be arsed to post most days...

There's no sex, drugs and arguments anymore...instead every post(er) gets picked apart and ripped to shreds which is very dull indeed...it really is a vicars tea party....

-- Anonymous, March 26, 2002


Just for the record, I'm in the top 10 ;-)) [previous organisational emails etc]

-- Anonymous, March 26, 2002


Gav - what do you think has gone wrong?

I find myself working quite hard at times on here to try to keep things going. At times I wonder whether I might be over-contributing - especially when I get ripped up. ;o{)

However, we've lost some major contributors - tragically ITK, but also Tre, DeBuilder, and more recently Buff - and important previously frequent contributors like Galaxy, Sting, Softie and even yourself have cut back massively in their input. I'm just delighted that Jonno has made a comeback as a regular 'agent provocateur'.

I really am quite concerned about the situation.

-- Anonymous, March 26, 2002


Sorry folks, been a bit busy. More responsibilty at home and at work have made this a bit of a luxury. I don't get to the reserves anymore and haven't seen the lads train in yonks so I'd rather keep my nose out if possible. I post the odd piece of statistical drivel from my database to spark a debate but that usually fizzles out unless it's deliberately stirring.

I think that this season has been so much better than expected that it seems wrong to carp about inadequacies and tempting fate to predict anything good. That kind of cuts down the options. When this forum was at its most inventive and entertaining is when we were in the most shit and looking for something to lift the gloom......no surprise that jonno pops up with a funny when things are looking (temporarily) grim.

Personally I'm so pent up with where we might end up this season that I don't want to clutter the place up with drivel. This isn't the silence of the mortuary, it's more of a pregnant pause. Let's see what the baby's like :-)

-- Anonymous, March 26, 2002


Congratulations, it's a BBS!

-- Anonymous, March 26, 2002

Tell yer softie, prior to all these stas I thought you were normal and opinionated but actually being able to prove yer point is all a bit professional like....can't yer just slavver on a bit like Mr Fats?

-- Anonymous, March 26, 2002

It seems many folks have gotten caught up with other concerns in their lives at work or home so don't spend as much time online. Plus there does seem to be a sense of collective breath holding about this season. There's one camp of folks happy to celebrate the ride, and another camp afraid to wake up and find this was just a dream. We don't have tons of money to spend on players, so there's no real transfer news to speak of, the greenspun server getting flakier and at times too frustrating to deal with.... I guess it's just a combination of factors that no one person can really fix. It's a phenomena I'm noticing on a few other lists I've belonged to for years. Just peaks and valleys, no reason to panic.

-- Anonymous, March 26, 2002


Interesting - thanks for the input gang. KEEP POSTING!! ;o{)

-- Anonymous, March 26, 2002

Ok Ok im right up there with the guilt factor here . Iagree with Gav , there's no wind up's from LR , flirting with new lasses , underhand e mails behind peoples back , gossip , pictures and general sheeite. Yer knaa all the things that really make the world go round . I miss it , but being 11 hours away by timezone means it just isnt the same . I miss the good old days, oh aye and the constant worry of losing me job if I ever got found out ;-) Keep going gang this place is well and truly alive just not as dirty and nasty as it used to be....

-- Anonymous, March 26, 2002

With the great likelihood I'll be (deservedly) shot down, what about trying a "regular contributors" section? I used to try to give a view of away games from the Stealth Astra © but alas, we've been forced into a temporary separation. However, the reunion is due for Pride Park.

Softie's got his database to play with and his contributions are very welcome and thought-provoking. Clarky, GB, Roly (in absentia??), Windy Pete and Flo' give us a good insight into club finances etc. Could we put these into a more regular forum? Would folks be interested, or is it just the spontanaity which is needed? I dunno, but I'll say one thing - for those of us abroad (albeit on occasions for me), a forum like this is a godsend. Divvent let it die.

-- Anonymous, March 26, 2002


Macbeth, why is it that I can't access the "statistics page" anymore?

Not a big deal, but I used to click on it once in a while, esp. if/when the BBS has been a bit dead(ish).

-- Anonymous, March 26, 2002


Agree with recently-named-fats that from an OS perspective this forum is the closet thing to being part of the Toon big match atmosphere we all love. This is nothing to actually being at the ground but getting reports on the game realtime, following transfers, rumours etc its the next best thing. I can only apologise for being a known lurker and enjoying the many vicarious threads that have appeared on here and communicata without contributing that much. No more Corinthian league was bad enough but no BBS is unthinkable.

-- Anonymous, March 26, 2002

Well, glad that outed you muzza. Get yersel' bacl into posting mode ;-)

-- Anonymous, March 27, 2002

Muzza, this BBS is often characterized by it's vicar(ious) attitude ;-)

;7)

-- Anonymous, March 27, 2002


Bud is it because you have a slow(ish) net connection? it's a fairly big calculation these days with all the posts we have...

Sting I agree with you....all the dirt has gone out of the place....it is indeed a vicars tea party....

-- Anonymous, March 27, 2002


There's no sex, drugs and arguments anymore

Who's fault is that then Gav? Since your retirement there has been a lack of input on the first item you mention. As for myself, I can tell you that consumption of the second would render performance of the first unlikey (notwithstanding the lack of opportunity).

But as for the third - d'ye wanna make something of it you big tart? :-)

-- Anonymous, March 27, 2002

The sort of banter that made this place so addictive, required almost constant posting/reading. Personally, I have nowhere near the time I used to have and have to be a lot more careful since there are formalised policies and software monitoring usage.

-- Anonymous, March 27, 2002

If Screach/MF is suggesting a more organized type of forum, then we could do that on the EZboard Jonno set up during the last greenspun outage. Folders can be set up for bigger categories(finances, Match Day) and within those contributors can start threads as easily as here. It also gives the date/time info we've been missing since HMS Communicata sunk. I occasionally lurk on another EZboard(non-footie) that is insanely busy(on a topic I can't believe there's really that much to discuss, but there ya go), and haven't noticed any major problems. It also allows non-members to read posts before actually joining so may encourage new blood when folks can look before they leap..so to speak. Tawk amongst yerselves...I'm happy with either forum. :-)

-- Anonymous, March 27, 2002

clarky, I think you misunderstood.

I wasn't saying your comment was crap at all, in fact I agree with you. It was surprise on my behalf that I've posted nearly 3000 messages in such a short space of time. I honestly didn't realise I had posted that many.

-- Anonymous, March 27, 2002


I know I've posted more than that. I think the main reason why the board seems so quiet is that people have other stuff going on. I know I only post at work, plus I am six hours behind those posting in the UK so all the stuff that I would comment on has already been commented on, so I find myself in a bit of a paradox.

-- Anonymous, March 27, 2002

paul, and if you hadn't you could have got involved in far more sex, drugs and arguments... :-)

-- Anonymous, March 27, 2002

Syme, what does wearing a pair a docs have to do with your ability to post? Still typing with your toes? ;-))

-- Anonymous, March 27, 2002

I am actually wearing a pair of docs. Trust me when I say nothing would improve my typing and if I could get me toes that near me gob I'd be in trouble ;)

-- Anonymous, March 27, 2002

I used to love having aguments on message boards.

I remember when I was bored out of my skull once I went onto a computer hardware message board based in America and started an argument about how football (soccer) was better than American football.

There were about 4 English soccer people and literally hundreds of Americans in defence of their game. Eventually they backed down when we pointed out that they don't really use their feet much so have no right to call it football.

To be honest, I haven't posted as much as I could have recently. A lot of that is through not having the time. I've been playing football three or four nights a week a lot of the time, plus having exams and the like to prepare for. I should have more time now though, as I've spent most of my money on drink over the last month or two. :)

-- Anonymous, March 27, 2002


Nee probs Paul - I get the lip on far too easily at times. I must be at a funny age!

-- Anonymous, March 27, 2002

Nah it's alright, looking at it, it's an easy enough mistake to make.

That's the thing with written messages - you get no facial expressions or tone of voice to help you along, it's all how you interpret it.

-- Anonymous, March 27, 2002


Well in that case paul can I ask you what you are doing spending all "my money on drink" you didn't even ask if I wanted owt??

-- Anonymous, March 27, 2002

Not all of the money, just most of it. What do you want then, half a shandy?

-- Anonymous, March 27, 2002

Half a shandy? you must think I am you ;)

-- Anonymous, March 27, 2002

Or Screacher....he likes shandies i've heard....

-- Anonymous, March 28, 2002

Screacher doesn't like alcohol - full stop. Well, not after last night :-(

-- Anonymous, March 28, 2002

Did the poster formerly known as thin Screacher have a heavy night then?

-- Anonymous, March 28, 2002

was it Marstons who once brought out fat free beer? Tubs Tubson was the fat guy advertising it i think?

-- Anonymous, March 28, 2002

Was it Marstons who once brought out fat free beer? Tubs Tubson was the fat guy advertising it i think? You could drink yersel thin, Fats.

-- Anonymous, March 28, 2002

see, beers playing tricks with my posts. drink water!

-- Anonymous, March 28, 2002

Better late than never, so here`s my five pennyworth.(:o)

There has definately been a change of atmosphere, though I did think it was picking up a while ago. When the BBS was down yesterday, I did a search looking for other NUFC sites, hoping to find you all. The search brought up the old Communicata`s sad final notice, and I really don`t want to lose this one.

After a chaotic week, yesterday gave me a chance to sit down and ponder on the changes. ITK is missed terribly - his wicked sense of humour and lightening fast response time, was a major factor in keeping up a constant flow of `crack`. As Clarky said, there are other major contributors who are missed too.

I`ve said before that I think it is the non-footie part of the BBS which gave it its unique signature. I think for a long while, the presence of hostile postings from Sunderland supporters cramped a lot of people`s style. I know that I personally didn`t feel like sharing non-footie chat with `persons unknown`. Many threads were hijacked, and my own dappy middle-aged tales of giant slugs, trips to the supermarket and escaped horses just didn`t seem appropriate.

The atmosphere in that respect has improved, but there seems to less people permenantly `tuned in` to the BBS. At one time you could almost guarantee an instant response from someone if you just happened to have five minutes to spare and fancied a chat or moan about the price of fish.

The other thing which has changed, is that we happen to be doing well at the minute, and oddly that too seems to have changed the atmosphere. It all seems terribly serious now and the anxiety level is much higher than when we were floundering! Isn`t that an odd fact?

I have been guilty lately of reading postings and not making the time to contribute, and I think one or two others have been doing the same.

Also, there have been quite a few really excellent new contributors this last year, but I don`t really feel as though I have got to know them well - no insights into other interests, jobs, hopes and aspirations etc. It`s not obligatory, but I think people are genuinely interested in `person` as well as the `post`.

I`ve got a quiet weekend, as it happens, and intend getting up to date on here. There are also several people I know who read, but haven`t yet started posting, so I shall be getting on their back this weekend too!

New blood is always required - so let`s keep recruiting. Let`s also start enjoying our success and let our hair down a bit! (:o)

-- Anonymous, March 30, 2002


Oh I forgot to mention.....I also miss the Corinthian`s League, quizzes, current affairs debates (take that how you like!), and that stupid word association thing we used to do on the old Communicata. (:o)

-- Anonymous, March 30, 2002

What "stupid word association thing we used to do..."?

:-(

;-)

-- Anonymous, March 30, 2002


I actually thought that word association thing was great crack in it's silly uniqueness. Some of the responses were hilarious. It could be revived on EZ board with the way it makes pages in the threads so we wouldn't have the problem of waiting ages for a page to reload, which was one of the things that annoyed folks on Communicata.

-- Anonymous, March 30, 2002

Moderation questions? read the FAQ