Uh, lol Bondo. No is the answer. Why?

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is that three days???

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Originally posted by Bond1965:
So, just out of curiosity, if this board were not running would you post over at FSM asking about it?

James

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That's like someone from John Kerry's messageboard going over to George W. Bush messageboard.

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Originally posted by jonathan_little:
I think that FSM's board is engineered in a way so that it can't withstand more than three people using it simultaneously.

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So everytime the dude with the humble opinion gets on the board, no one else can access it? Scary.

I've seen the exact same topic posted on both boards and the topic on FSM usually draws 2 to 3 times the posts as here.

Also the crowd over there seems more into Golden Age scores than most who post here. So if you are into older scores, there's more talk about them there

In addition to FSM producers who post over there, Bruce Kimmel (Bay Cities) Ford Thaxton and a few others involved in the biz are available to argue and answer questions. There are also people who had long involvment with the studio system and its descendents to talk about that as well.

But to answer another question, Yeah if this board went down I would Email PeterK and ask what's up and failling that I would post on the Off Topic board about what was going on.

Thankfully, the MM board won't be going down.

I guess I'll just never understand why so much complaining about board problems exists at FSM when there are 10 other film music boards that are always up. Ok, 9 of them maybe get 5 posts a week, but still. Move the herd.

I don't read FSM so much is because of a very negative tone that exists, ironincally coming those few who triumph themselves because of a passion for good film music (the stuff before 1977). Too many sour apples in the bunch. Of course, I personally have many friends who post there. The entire bunch ain't sour, so don't read me wrong!

Of course they would have to be pretty small riots with less than ten or so rioting in the big cities and 1 or 2 in the smaller hamlets.

Still, Riots! Teargas! Madness!

The sixities all over again for the first time!

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Originally posted by PeterK:

I don't read FSM so much is because of a very negative tone that exists, ironincally coming those few who triumph themselves because of a passion for good film music (the stuff before 1977). Too many sour apples in the bunch. Of course, I personally have many friends who post there. The entire bunch ain't sour, so don't read me wrong!

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Who do you mean?

Quite often, one fellow writes inflammatory subject lines while his first post to the thread is innocuous enough and doesn't mean what the subject line implies.

That pisses a few people off.

That, and some idiotic comments made by some folks who havent' seen a film that was made before 1980.

And PeterK: I don't know the specifics of what you were referring to about film music fans who "triumph" music written before 1977, but:

It's one thing to say, "I'm not familiar with film music before 1980."

It's quite another to say, "I have no interest in any film music written before 1980 because that's when my interest in film music began."

If one fan cannot take this newer fan to task for being too narrowly focused, then there is no point to a discussion forum.

I agree with you that things move slowly here. I visit a couple of times a week and the topics are pretty much the same, and in the same place.

At FSM, miss a day and you've missed three or four "possibly" interesting topics that have been pushed down to page 2 by newer topics.

Today, alone, 13 new topics were started. Several are of interest to me. Tomorrow, several will probably have moved on to page 2. There may be "some" negativity in a couple of the threads -- out of 50 or 60 created just this week -- but there's far more interesting stuff there than negative stuff.

It's an acceptable price to pay for engaging discourse.

[Message edited by Ron Pulliam on 03-03-2005]

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Originally posted by franz_conrad:
Ron, he seems to be a bit better behaved at the moment (or maybe we're all less stupid), but I kind of had the 'guy with the humble opinion' in mind mainly.

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Oh, HIM!

Believe me, there's not an humble anything in him.

I need a favor. Could you post over at FSM that our beloved Search Feature here at MM has been found?? I think some people over there were looking for him/her/it. One post like that would be a fair exchange for the many FSM customer service posts we've been doing every time the FSM site bites it?

They obviously have server bandwidth problems they don't want to address.

I hope it's OK that I vent here on mm.com when the FSM board is having severe trouble, Peter. I try to limit the posts to ONE SINGLE THREAD, and it's usually just to see if anyone else experience the same. But I know the whole FSM thing is a slightly "sore spot" for you (or maybe not).

BigT, my problem with the FSM board has nothing whatsoever to do with the membership at the present time, just the interface and server. I think the "bitterness" you speak of is highly overrated.

Oh, and I will of course post a search engine heads-up at FSM, Peter!

My quip is not with FSM, never has been. I am stumped as to why someone would post a message on one message board about the status of another message board -- most especially regarding FSM these days, as I think by now it's "pretty much very well" understood that FSM's site has had access problem clearly documented all the way back to y2k. So when it happens again, get up, go have a snack, read a back issue, take a nap, come back and try again....

...unless of course there is some mechanism inside you that says you HAVE to click a "post message" button every day, no matter where?

See, that's my problem... and it is my problem. I just don't get it.

But you just don't get it, man!

It ain't about "the FSM board" being down or slow.

It's about *THE FSM Board* being down. That's like, it's just... oh it's so difficult to think of the right words... it's like, the end of the world, bro'!

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My quip is not with FSM, never has been. I am stumped as to why someone would post a message on one message board about the status of another message board -- most especially regarding FSM these days, as I think by now it's "pretty much very well" understood that FSM's site has had access problem clearly documented all the way back to y2k. So when it happens again, get up, go have a snack, read a back issue, take a nap, come back and try again....

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Well, the reason I post it here is that many of the moviemusic.com members happen to be FSM members as well, so I would like to know if they experience the same problem. There have actually been times in the past where I've had to do something with MY internet connection and where the FSM board has seemingly worked fine for everyone else.

In addition to FSM producers who post over there, Bruce Kimmel (Bay Cities) Ford Thaxton and a few others involved in the biz are available to argue and answer questions. There are also people who had long involvment with the studio system and its descendents to talk about that as well.

What info do you have that I don't have about Bill not being the administrator. As of last Friday, he still was.

Of course, as with the sheriff, he doesn't get paid to do anything for FSM (nor does he get any promo stuff or anything...and if he is like the sheriff, he doesn't even get a thanks...but that is neither here nor there). He has a full time paying job that he works at and I think Thor really needs to take a Xanax or something to calm his nerves. Truthfully, we are doing the best we can with what we have, which ain't much, trust me.

As for your issue, Thor, since I have had no troubles getting on, it must be you. Who have YOU pissed off recently?

By the way, I'm perfectly calm. NOW. Just a bit frustrated.