threegee

I'm not too sure on the whereabouts of the old message base or whether it still exists. If it materialises I'll try and get it restored within the week.

I've now located a number of backup files of the old NCB posts. It's just a matter of deciding which is the most complete/up-to-date set, what's worth restoring and what's not.

Please note that it wasn't me that promised that the format conversion would be a trivial task!

A glance at the server logs shows lots and lots of Bedlingtonians (and their near neighbours) lurking and not registering at this moment.

Registration is free, and you will not be letting yourself in for any spam. Your control panel gives you 100% control of your membership. You can even turn off messages from the board if you want.

However, if you do register - amongst other great things - you'll have access to the bedlington.co.uk PMS (Personal Messaging System) which will give you a private message box to exchange personal messages with other Bedlingtonians. Yes, that's what those My Controls ··· 0 New Messages links along the top are!

Your PMS is also 100% under your control, and you can specify exactly who you do (and do not) want to get personal messages from. The PMS system does not involve you in disclosing your e-mail address to anyone, but the registration process does mean that by-and-large people are who they say they are, and mostly locals or Northumbrians now resident in other parts of the world. The registration process is to help protect you, and means that in the case of any deliberate deception there's a fair degree of traceability.

When someone says "PM me" on a post they are inviting you to send them a private message. If you decide you don't want to correspond privately with them then place their handle (message board name) on your exclude list. If you don't want any personal messages then simply turn the PMS facility off completely.

Please note that at present we do not have the resources to give the facilities 24/7/365 moderation, nor do we monitor the PMS system - this would be tantamount to reading other people's post. Because of this persons under the age of 16 may not join bedlington.co.uk as full members, though they may co-opt a parent or guardian to post messages on their behalf.

Update: 23rd April 2006

All the two digit "founder member" membership numbers have gone now, but there's still a chance to own a lowish one, if you don't dither.

And, a reminder to existing members - it's use it or loose it; if you don't log-in at intervals (and check your control panel for messages) the software will eventually trash your membership, PM mailboxes, picture galleries, blogs etc. and free up your username for reuse by someone else. A number of early memberships have already met this fate. Unlike most other community boards our membership numbers are not grossly inflated by inactive and unconfirmed members.

How about a temporary section named 'out of town chat' until decisions have been made on permanent forum section names?!

For all things external of Bedlington where sites are not available for there local community

Will increase the users and possibility of expansion to different areas if need be

Maybe I'd anticipated you a bit by renaming it to Northumberland...

Anyway will that do for now?

Does anyone have any info as to why the police were swarming over Bedlington this morning (31/10/05) at approx 1am ? Apparently the incident was centered on the old Frontier restaurant (to be confirmed), from memory there was 8 police cars and two vans.

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Andy

The Masons really have to stop these midnight meetings!

Just currious, I know this site used to have a section with a whole load of pictures of Bedlington. As Im out here in Yankland I was hoping to see those pictures again to remind me of good/crap Bedlington, and give most of the people im working with a good old laugh at the town. I suppose it would be just good to see again after the past few months.

Blah anyway, just wondering where it went, and hoping for a couple more updates on the Picture of the Day thing.....

Yah, we jumped the gun a tad on the Picture of the Day thing. The pix rotating software has only just been installed, and it WILL be updated every 24 hours within a very short while.

As mentioned elsewhere, the personal picture galley software is to be installed this month. In fact the bugs now seem to have been fixed, and it's likely to be operational sooner rather than later in the month.

If people don't upload their own Bedlington Galleries then I certainly will. In fact I probably will anyway -competition is always a good thing! Gallery isn't just restricted to pix of the Town though, as long as it's of general interest, and doesn't cause offence...

The time has now been corrected for GMT (UST). In order to ensure that you have the correct local time display then please do the following:

Then click on Board Settings on the left side menu:

Then ensure the two check boxes shown are un-ticked - like so:

If you are in another time zone then adjust the Your base time zone drop-down as appropriate.

Finally click on the [Change my Account Options] button at the bottom.

Thanks.

We haven't got the software to efficiently handle

...@bedlington.co.uk mail addresss' at the moment, and I doubt that

there would be any benefit to writing any. Experience shows that

people treat such freebies as a throw-away address, and attract huge

amounts of spam. This then has to be dealt with, taking much needed

effort away from more worthwhile projects. Dealing with the spam that

our paying customers unwittingly attract to themselves is already a

costly business.

As for connectivity - we're not in that business. We'd thought about

re-branding one of the services already on offer. But at the end of

the day that's not going to help anyone. There's a great danger of

spreading the resources too thin and trying to do too much. However

when Cable & Wireless do get their equipment into the local exchange

we'll be one of their first customers. We've already got a "last-mile"

optical link waiting to go.

On the SMS question: we've already looked at it, a while back, and that

might indeed be a goer.

The problem seems to be what exactly is meant by serving food. No one seems to know.

Is a sauasage roll food? And, if not, does it become food if it's microwaved?

But please, enlighten me (us?) of "Moscies"

Moscardini's Station Cafe - on the corner around from the station. Well known teenage meeting place in the '60s, and probably for some time after. Can't recall when it closed, but it was a feature of Bedlington life for many decades. Now an Indian take-away - what else!

http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat...ale=5000&icon=x

Fully integrated Personal Photo Galleries will be added some time next month [Editor: That was written in October so we mean this month - November]. The delay is due to minor software bugs - which are being worked on as I write.

This gives you plenty of notice to get your collection of interesting pictures together and have them ready to upload!

You can still upload pictures to posts, and, of course, those brave enough to start a blog can include their own graphics. But, the Galleries have automatic thumb-nail/photo-album creation, voting, commenting, extensive linking support to ensure minimum browsing effort, ability to send your pick of the photos to others as a greeting card, slide shows, photo sharing with other Bedlington Gallery owners, etc. etc.

Do NOT squeeze the tube of superglue BEFORE you've carefully unblocked the nozzle with that straightened paperclip!

Arrrgghhhh!!

Who's this Yoda lad? I don't remeber him from St Bedes. But that was 1943 mind you!

Not then you are a Star Wars fan?

--> Brett: Oops - sorry I didn't recognise you!

We need a forum for peeps to ask questions about using the software, and to flag features like personal galleries, PM, events calendar etc.

I've already had a user question by phone.

Something like: How Do I...

is it necessary to speak like yoda whilst dishing out advice??

I never dish out advice - I always bill it! Anyway that's the way people used to talk pre SMS.

Is that CB under the moniker there?

im confused already

SOAP: This is the story of two families.... Confused? You will be! LOL

http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/soap.htm

Bedlington, West End Junior School class (c. 1916) - second row back I think.

Bedlington, Church of Christ Baptists (c. 1930s) - almost bang in the center.

The 1916 one isn't too clear and I seem to remember a much better print of it in Evan Martin's booklet - for which I probably never thanked him for the compy copy.

P.S. Where's me background?

Ummm.. how do you spell 'successful' again!

A hearty vote of thanks to fourgee for configuring the software!