[78-L] ^The Talking Machine Forum, RIP: What happened?

[Royal Pemberton]

I just found out.  The Victrola Forum and the Talking Machine Forum
were one and the same.  They changed the name from VF to TMF to give
it a more universal appeal, as Victrola was mostly known in America.

The people who started VF/TMF had left another related board due to
the antics of some of the members there, apparently.  Lots of bad
blood, and the VF/TMF people wanted a fresh start with none of the
shenanigans.  However, the troublemaker contingent in the earlier
board didn't take the start of a new one lying down, and apparently
harassed the hosting organisation (which was ProBoards for both MBs)
who simply responded by pulling both boards off its site.

I found this message on a blog page from one of the original VF/TMF people:

<snip>Sadly I must announce that our competition has harassed
ProBoards to the point where they decline to host either forum. We
will be back on another host as soon as we can. I will not buckle
under to bullies!  <snip>

Here's the link to a temporary forum:
http://boardhosting.org/forums/talkingmachinforum/index.php



On 1/7/09, bruce78rpm at comcast.net <bruce78rpm at comcast.net> wrote:
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>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Royal Pemberton" <ampex354 at gmail.com>
>> I just joined this forum around Christmas, having seen a link to it in
>> another topic here at 78-L.  But it apparently collapsed late
>> yesterday or early today.  I get a generic 'start your own forum!'
>> page with no explanation of why.  What's the story?
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> what a tragedy! they were off to a good start and there was some excellent
> discussions and really nice members there. Is it just a curious coincidence
> that the old time Victrola Board is also gone? and at just about the same
> time? what on earth is going on?
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