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Hi folks,
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i really appreciate all the help from everyone this year !!? 
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i am not sure if something has changed on here but the site won't load pages (sometimes) and also, in general, pages are extremely slow to load ??
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i am also not able to view (ie?scroll down to or 'search' for) previous?posts or call up my own threads ??
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Any help would be very much appreciated !!
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Thanks guys.........
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Paul
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It works fine for me ,may need to clean up your computer.Do a disk clean up ,delete browsing history ,and cookies ect,ect than try it.
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Thanks vbrotz,
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i have done those things just now ta.
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But i am still not even able to reply to your message directly using the 'Reply' function ??? i keep getting a ERROR ON PAGE message.
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Thanks a lot.
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Paul
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Do you mean our yahoo group?
Yes, the design (and unfortunately also functionality) was changed some time ago to NEO look, which is accompanied by many complaints from the side of members of? many groups who have problems with it (including me).
Not the best idea from the side of yahoo.
I have no idea how to help with this, they didn't ask us if we want such change.
For one of my personal problems with NEO look, very long time to open some page and not load at all, I have found a solution. After clicking on some folder name, when I see "loading" alert ?I immediately click on small cross at right side in the window where is written address of that page, and then that page opens.
So do you use yahoo group page for reading the messages and answering them? It was not much friendly even before, and now... near to the impossible.?
Daniel Forro ?
i am not sure if something has changed on here but the site won't load pages (sometimes) and also, in general, pages are extremely slow to load ?? i am also not able to view (ie?scroll down to or 'search' for) previous?posts or call up my own threads ?? Any help would be very much appreciated !!
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Thanks Bruce,
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Thats very interesting and i appreciate your help and adivce.
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i received an automated-reply from the Yahoo?Team saying someone will respond in due course.
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i was thinking, have you never considered creating/running your OWN Yamaha DX Forum ??? i am sure you could do a much better job than Yahoo are doing !!? Just a thought.
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Best,
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Paul
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i was thinking, have you never considered
creating/running your OWN Yamaha DX Forum ??? i am sure you
could do a much better job than Yahoo are doing !!? Just a
thought.
Appreciate the sentiment, but I'm not going to run another forum,
not even on a dare!? Running a BBS from scratch takes a lot of time,
of which I have little.? Case in point:? you sent this message on
13-DEC; I'm replying on 18-DEC ...
;-)
But the alternate-forum idea isn't a bad one.? I tried
(unsuccessfully) to get my large forum, CloneWheel, to move to a BBS
for several years.? Yahoo Groups is perfect for something small and
temporary -- say, a class reunion.? It also works with forums that
have low interest or minimal traffic.? At a certain size and traffic
level, though, a forum needs 1) the ability to create and moderate
sub-topics;? 2) a better way to moderate and unmoderate members;?
and 3) a means of dividing up chores.? #3 is particularly painful on
Yahoo:? We had three moderators on CloneWheel, but there's no way to
divide up the moderating by topic, or to assign each moderator a
smaller group of members to watch.? Any agreement to do so would
have to be informal.? There's also no way to shut down a thread that
has gone out of control.
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Hi Bruce,
Does it take a long time to create a website from scratch ??
Do you need the Moderators to stop people spamming or matters becoming abusive ??
i have never been on the site CloneWheel.? i am kind of guessing its something to do with Hammond Organ VSTi's ??
Ta,
Paul
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This I can answer a little bit as a CloneWheel member :-)
Not only software emulations of tonewheel Hammond organ, but as well all their hardware incarnations, based on samples or on some kind of physical model. Also using of Leslie, or Leslie emulator can be discussed. Amplification, playing technique, Hammond music, players, scores, tips and tricks, drawbar registrations, problems and their solution...?
Bruce will give more detailed answer.
Daniel Forro
i have never been on the site CloneWheel.? i am kind of guessing its something to do with Hammond Organ VSTi's ??
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Ta Daniel,
i will check it out have once owned a M100 and Leslie in my twenties !!? Now i have a Nord Stage keyboard which has a great Organ section.
i have always wanted the NI B4 Virtual Hammond VSTi but this is now no longer for sale.? My friend had it and it sounded superb.
Ta,
Paul
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Does it take a long time to create a
website from scratch ??
Not necessarily a lot of time, but it does require access to a
server where the forum can sit, and bandwidth for topics.? Things
can also go wrong from time to time, requiring technical
intervention.? It seems like an easy task, but I've known people who
spend all their free time chasing after their sites!
Do
you need the Moderators to stop people spamming or matters
becoming abusive ??
Sometimes both, depending on the list makeup.? In the case of
CloneWheel, the members aren't necessarily abusive, but they love to
push each others' 'buttons,' and some of them like off-topic threads
a lot.
Also, some lists are 'informational' (like this one), while others
are more 'conversational' (like CloneWheel).? In conversational
lists, if the 'real' topics die down, often members will branch OT
to fill the void.? That's where the trouble can begin, because OT
threads by definition aren't well defined.
The problem becomes worse as the membership increases.? If a list
has 50 members, there will only be 5-10 emails on most days, and
most of them will be on-topic.? If the list has 2,500 members then
things get more difficult.? If nothing else, the moderators are
supposed to scan every post to see if it suits the forum.? Reading
100-200 emails per day, many of which aren't of personal interest to
the moderator, can get old really fast.
i
have never been on the site CloneWheel.? i am kind of
guessing its something to do with Hammond Organ VSTi's ??
Not just VSTis; anything that sounds like a Hammond B-3, but isn't
an actual electromechanical Hammond organ.? That includes
Hammond-Suzuki products like the XK-3C, and clones from Clavia/Nord,
Crumar, Korg, Roland, Voce, etc.? It also includes players who use
their Kurzweil, Motif, or even mobile phone to get Hammond-like
sounds.
Regards,
-BW
Bruce Wahler
Ashby Solutions.com?
bw@...
877.55.ASHBY ?(877.552.7429
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Just a note on websites: You can get free hosts - free forums or use blogs. As long as you have an HTML editor - you can have a website up and running within a day or so as it sometimes takes time to go live. If one has control of the hosting then it is often not necessary to chase sites - but since I have had 3-4 closed down by site operators - then yes, having your own server would be good.
From: Bruce Wahler
To: YamahaDX@...
Sent: Wednesday, 18 December 2013, 19:00
Subject: Re: [YamahaDX] Re: Quick Help (please)
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Does it take a long time to create a
website from scratch ??
Not necessarily a lot of time, but it does require access to a
server where the forum can sit, and bandwidth for topics.? Things
can also go wrong from time to time, requiring technical
intervention.? It seems like an easy task, but I've known people who
spend all their free time chasing after their sites!
Do
you need the Moderators to stop people spamming or matters
becoming abusive ??
Sometimes both, depending on the list makeup.? In the case of
CloneWheel, the members aren't necessarily abusive, but they love to
push each others' 'buttons,' and some of them like off-topic threads
a lot.
Also, some lists are 'informational' (like this one), while others
are more 'conversational' (like CloneWheel).? In conversational
lists, if the 'real' topics die down, often members will branch OT
to fill the void.? That's where the trouble can begin, because OT
threads by definition aren't well defined.
The problem becomes worse as the membership increases.? If a list
has 50 members, there will only be 5-10 emails on most days, and
most of them will be on-topic.? If the list has 2,500 members then
things get more difficult.? If nothing else, the moderators are
supposed to scan every post to see if it suits the forum.? Reading
100-200 emails per day, many of which aren't of personal interest to
the moderator, can get old really fast.
i
have never been on the site CloneWheel.? i am kind of
guessing its something to do with Hammond Organ VSTi's ??
Not just VSTis; anything that sounds like a Hammond B-3, but isn't
an actual electromechanical Hammond organ.? That includes
Hammond-Suzuki products like the XK-3C, and clones from Clavia/Nord,
Crumar, Korg, Roland, Voce, etc.? It also includes players who use
their Kurzweil, Motif, or even mobile phone to get Hammond-like
sounds.
Regards,
-BW
Bruce Wahler
Ashby Solutions.com?
bw@...
877.55.ASHBY ?(877.552.7429
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Ta Bruce,
Thats very interesting to know.? i had never really thought about what goes on in the background of keeping a website active and functional.? i can see how it can easy start to dominate someones life though !!
Paul
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Hi Lee,
Why did the the site operators close you down ??? Not sure why that would be if what you where running was honest and legitimate (which i am sure it was) ??
Ta,
Paul
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In a couple of cases the free hosting switched to paying or stopped supplying free FTP/stopped trading. In others they did not like my content which in most cases was innocuous. Zymic in particular we're quite bizarre in their rejection of me. Even now I do not understand their thinking. I have a transcript of the bizarre dialogue I had with them. Places such as aol and yahoo have stopped doing FTP. Over the years I have moved sites several times resulting in busted links which I am still repairing!
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Hi Lee,
Why did the the site operators close you down ??? Not sure why that would be if what you where running was honest and legitimate (which i am sure it was) ??
Ta,
Paul
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Lee Borrell