Paris, anyone?

[french frank]

Rightly or wrongly, the forum has grown into meeting place for people who are first and foremost utterly passionate about music, and who also have well-wrought views about how the world is. The R3 aspect of it has become overtime, less salient.

That means it would go the same way as r3ok, which started as an alternative to the BBC boards, then opted NOT to be closely associated - and is now sturdily supported by a couple of dozen members at most.

Radio 3 is what focuses the attention because Radio 3 goes on and provides the lifeblood. No Radio 3 - and the forum folds, because why should FoR3 continue running it? It's hosted on our website and as long as that is the case it remains The Radio 3 Forum.

[Don Petter]

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...ntation-Survey

Are you a supporter, jean? It's not too late!

I did intend to look at it, but when it needed pms and such to launch the process, I got distracted and never got round to it.

[Don Petter]

There's an argument to be made for members to write under their own names and with a recent picture of themselves visible in their avatar. I can't guarantee it would train all polecats, but it might temper matters somewhat.

It's stopped me a few times.

Not sure about the picture, though. It might be straining the collective tolerance a little too far.

[Petrushka]

That means it would go the same way as r3ok, which started as an alternative to the BBC boards, then opted NOT to be closely associated - and is now sturdily supported by a couple of dozen members at most.

Radio 3 is what focuses the attention because Radio 3 goes on and provides the lifeblood. No Radio 3 - and the forum folds, because why should FoR3 continue running it? It's hosted on our website and as long as that is the case it remains The Radio 3 Forum.

I have to admit that the connection between this forum and FoR3 has always been something of a mystery to me - and to be honest it still is! Perhaps it should be pushed forward a bit more and perhaps we should all be co-opted in to FoR3?

R3 is less important to me these days than it once was yet only this very week, the station has given me, and many others, one of the most life-enhancing broadcasts that I can remember for many a long year. All of a sudden Radio 3 has become important again.

[Bryn]

Re. the presentation survey. I put it to one side when I discovered that the format it was itself presented in was just too much hassle to struggle with. I don't use .doc format and when I tried opening the survey in Open Office I found that formatting went crazy when I tried to insert replies as requested. As I am not that concerned about Radio 3 presentation (not that I think it's the bees' knees), I moved on to other business.

[Richard Tarleton]

For pity's sake, guys, I have Open Office which is about as basic as it gets and had no difficulty with the survey.

[Nick Armstrong]

For pity's sake, guys, I have Open Office which is about as basic as it gets and had no difficulty with the survey.

FWIW I'm on a Mac and the survey worked with perfect ease using the standard-issue TextEdit function on the Mac OS.

[Flosshilde]

Re. the presentation survey. ... As I am not that concerned about Radio 3 presentation (not that I think it's the bees' knees), I moved on to other business.

I had a similar reaction. I couldn't tell one presenter from another (with a few exceptions) & I read the threads complaining about them with a sense of wry amusement - it all seems to be making a mountain out of molehills.

[jean]

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...ntation-Survey

Are you a supporter, jean? It's not too late!

I was away when the email arrived, and missed it. Found it now - just in time!

[ahinton]

Fault is about responsibility, you are responsible for what you post.

Of course; I would not suggest otherwise.

Thank you. Sorted without the need for a 'convention'.

No problem!

[Beef Oven!]

Of course; I would not suggest otherwise.

You suggested otherwise in your post #611

No problem!

Indeed!

[Don Petter]

I had a similar reaction. I couldn't tell one presenter from another (with a few exceptions) & I read the threads complaining about them with a sense of wry amusement - it all seems to be making a mountain out of molehills.

I tend to agree. Perhaps that's why they have to repeatedly name themselves. Without this, I couldn't tell SW from KD, or SMP from CBH.

The men fare a little better, but apart from AMG, RC, DM, IS, PT and you-know-who , I'd find it difficult to put a name to any others. (Perhaps there aren't many others, which would rather sink my argument. )

[ahinton]

You suggested otherwise in your post #611

I didn't, actually - or at least that was not my intention; I wrote
"It's certainly not your "fault" and I'd be loath to assume that it's the "fault" of the perpetrator either but, for the record and for the avoidance of doubt, no offence is or was intended nor fun poked at anyone thereby and, whilst you might think that I thought it "funny", I couldn't possibly comment other than to seek to assure you otherwise"
by which I meant that, although I openly admitted to being said perpatrator, I didn;t see what I wrote as necessarily being by definition at "fault" and I did add for the sake of clarity that it was not intended to be offensive or fun-poking - which it wasn't. Anyway, problem (if ever it was thought to be one) presumably solved!...