Apology Time
Apology Time
hanks to those of
you who have written to point out that the front page of the site no longer
bears a link to the Letters page(s). There was actually a reason for that. I've
been trying to wrap my head around a way to make Reader Comments more accessible,
without going through the drudgery of HTML-izing e-mail.
've been failing.
ne solution is to
go ahead and learn PHP, and imitate Andrew Borntreger's method over at Badmovies.org.
Taking time to learn another language, though, seems at odds with my goal of
not taking more time. Nathan Shumate, at Cold
Fusion Video Reviews, has a very nice message board setup, which nobody
seems to use very much, primarily (I think) for the same reason the Stomp Tokyo
Message Board is underemployed: both require registration.
admovies.org and Jabootu
both have vibrant reader forums, again because they are so open. But both have,
in recent memory, been home to what we refer to as "the late unpleasantness".
I don't have the time or the wherewithal to be a NetCop, so I would likely opt
for registration, too, which would just bring us back to the rather arid state
of the current message board.
orst of all, while
wrestling with this problem, the ever-thickening file of letters I was saving
fell victim to some form of corruption. Anybody knowing how to repair a table
of contents for a Eudora Pro file, let me know, because the loss of some of
those letters - and their sender's addresses - hurt. Especially the one from
El Santo, where he worked out a thoughtful alternate to the World's
100 Greatest Horror Movies. El, if you still have a copy of that, please
send it again - I promise I'll be much more careful with it this time. (El did,
and I am as good as my word - see my new experiment in Reader
Commentary here).
till, time to worker
harder, not smarter (did I get that right?), so it's time for everybody's favorite
- yes, another poll. Punch in what you'd most like to see here at the BMR. And
like Warren Beatty, I promise to do better. Unlike Warren, I might actually
do it.
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