 Poster: A snowHead
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This is starting to look reasuringly familiar. Will you and Alan be able to merge your two sites?
So when people say they work in IT, this what they mean. Excellent job.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I don't work in IT Dave but I am committed to skiing and what we had in the old forum.
As far as I am concerned this is my contribution to keeping all the contributors on board - there are lots of other sites out there in the big bad web! Once a permanent home for a forum is established I'm hoping that we can all migrate there and carry on - as a new bionically enhanced version of the old 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I registered www.snowHeads.com today and I'm so up for trying to make this a seriously good place to come/be.
The buzz of life around the old forum was incredible and i can only imagine that the S-club executive has no other experience of any kind of [web] community as I have yet to find one as active yet harmonious.
The small amounts of friction that occured, always dissipated swiftly and rarely with any required intervention from the admin. Frankly they were spoilt by their users and didn't even know it! 
If half as many people of the same quality passed through here i'd be chuffed to bits.
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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The problem we will have is publicising this site. All existing SCGB members who use the SCGB chat will find links, but we have to get back on board those many non members who used to use the SCGB chat site. MO Day (Members Only Day) happened without warning so there was no chance for us to tell non members where to meet up. As soon as snowheads.com is actually up & running, all of us with websites need to put links to snowheads on our own sites so Google can find it and give it a good rating.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I believe there are methods for knobbling Google such that a such for "Ski Club Discussion" could lead users here. As it stands I am the mightiest Ian Hopkinson on the web, so I'll link off my site 
I'm hoping that we can get SCGB to back off from their original position, at the very least I'm thinking of begging Laura to send my contact details to a few of the non-members. Option (2) would be resumption of normal service for a limited time (say a month) and Option (3) would be a full resumption of normal service.
I too think the old forum was immensely civilised and very heavily used. Normally I can understand both sides of an argument, even if I don't agree with them, but in this case SCGB are completely incomprehensible to me.
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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I have emailed everyone who had registered at my photogallery site so we may catch a few more.
Since you're so techie Ian, can you figure out why I can't get the autologin feature to work? It seems to be to do with cookie paths but the other bits (new post icons) do work.
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Errrr...beats me Alan, I'm on Windows XP with IE6, privacy settings medium and autologin works for me...
(BTW I'm the mightiest Ian Hopkinson on the web through no technical ability on my part!)
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Ah grasshopper - I thought it was my config settings on phpbb that was the problem. I'll try changing IE settings and see...
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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Nope - I even overrode my cookie settings and that didn't work. I assume that you are "logging off" before you close IE?
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| Pete H wrote: |
| The problem we will have is publicising this site. All existing SCGB members who use the SCGB chat will find links, but we have to get back on board those many non members who used to use the SCGB chat site. MO Day (Members Only Day) happened without warning so there was no chance for us to tell non members where to meet up.. |
It's my guess that MO day happened without warning for that very reason...they want us to all join, not meet somewhere else.
Regarding non-members, my only thought was to try and remember names and track them down via the internet. I know two of the guys (don't want to publish names) work for BT - I'm sure they may be traceable. It's usual that anyone who works in education can be tracked. All we have to do is remember names/details
(or maybe find a mole  )
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Elizabeth B, Lorraine Agass worked in Education if I remember correctly
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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I seem to remember that - somewhere "up north" I think?
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Email sent to Lorraine. Any other names (non-members) that people can remember, let me know - I'm onto friends reunited!! (probably wait till I'm on broadband on Mon to do the rest)
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You know it makes sense.
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Alan - do you mean the getting the autologin to work as admin on Ski Cardiff or autologin for this site. Autologin works for me here but not in Cardiff, I notice that Ski Cardiff flashes up a message saying if your browser doesn't support redirect then click here but this site doesn't.
Lorraine is a school teacher and lives north of Newcastle - does not appear to be on line - her son (Tom) is doing a season in Meribel. I'm wondering whether to put up a note on www.natives.co.uk.
I think John Lynn's Northern Ireland Ski Resort post might give me a good enough lead to send him a postcard.
Regis Walters (American weather forecaster) put his pictures up online at Yahoo at
http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/zermattskibum2004/album?.dir=/3440, if you have Yahoo Messenger you can contact him (I don't).
Martyn Copcutt, I think, works at BAe Filton (nr Bristol).
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Alan - I think maybe I understand - I can use autologin on both sites now. If you log out before closing IE then you do not autologin, if you remain logged in when you shut down IE then autologin "works". So really it isn't "autologin", it is "remember status from last visit" 
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Poster: A snowHead
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Thanks Ian - reading the phpbb site support leads me to suspect that this aspect does cause some confusion. I haven't had time to check all the support and mods but there might be a fix.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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eeeeeup chaps!
got here too, feels like I'm back with old friends again! Thanks Elizabeth.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Welcome Lorraine! 
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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Hi Lorraine, glad we found U.
It's become a bit of mission trawling the net, trying to track down our exiled friends.
Check out http://krass.com/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=13 and see if there's anyone mentioned who you know how to find.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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surely we'd all prefer it if we can get the ski club to change their mind? I don't rate the chances of creating something new that'll ever be as good. From the state of the ski club forum now I reckon they'll have to reverse their decision - I just hope everyone will still be happy to come back and continue contributing.
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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Thanx for the new site, I didn't post much on the old one but, checked in most evenings, I still think it's appalling the way people have been treated, I only joined due to the useful information IU found on the other forum
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Hello chaps - nice to see you all again! What excitement, eh... Slowplough had my email address as we'd met up in Val. I suspect that word will spread to other ex-users by the same kind of osmosis...
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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Hi Beck - just had a look at the SC site. No posts at all today in any thread other than "Skiing" and most of those are about you know what.
Hi nicky - in this forum you can delete double posts
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Hi All - Alan - thanks for the email telling me about this site.
Am just back from my week skiing and couldn't wait to tell you all about it!
Will pop a review on the resorts section as soon as possible!
Have emails for 2 other users - will forward this site onto them now!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Hi all, things are still raging on and it's still very one sided. The members who've taken up the cause are pushing the points at every opportunity. If the SCGB reverses it's decision, is it likely that you'll "come back"? Perhaps you could indicate by e-mailing me at mark_hunter@gmgroup.uk.com I'll publish the results on the forum site, so that all can see them.
As mentioned before, if anyone would like a Word doc sent to them so they can follow what's going on, again, drop me a line.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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You know it makes sense.
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Hi all thanks to Alex Presland I'm back in contact with sane people (well people that like mountains and snow).
Lets hope the membership continues to grow.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Hear hear.. Great site.. a job well done.
My opinion regarding a return to a free SCGB forum... is no. They pretty much showed what they thought of us...
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Poster: A snowHead
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U, thanks for all your hard work over the past few days. This site is fantastic.
It's great to see the old names popping up. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Just thought I'd check the cardiff site and see if anything was happening. Expected a few moans, but nothing as fantastic as this! Is this a u brain/craggs effort? Outstanding. Now where were we. BTW I emailed Laura expressing thanks and sadness, and putting arguments for the forum's reinstatement, but frankly, now I don't care. Who's planning the future of snowheads - love to know where it's going?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Hi everyone,
and thanks to Elizabeth B for kindly pointing me out to this forum. Great to see familiar names and potential skiing buddies.
I was away skiing when the SCGB cut-off happened so I had to endure double withdrawal symptoms once back. Anyway, a trip report to the Epicski Academy and Gathering in Snowbird / Jackson Hole respectively will follow soon.
I had a look at the discussions here and it seems that this is the main meeting place for ex-SCGB forum users. Alan - is that right? I may still (at last) register on your site to post some pics.
Great work u-brain. Many thanks.
(btw, I was Cedric Popa on the SCGB website)
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Hi Cedric, glad you've found us. Not for me to say if it's the main meeting place or not (modesty forbids etc) but there is a certain noticeable lack of postings on the Club site.... 
Photos always welcome at the gallery (I still haven't posted mine...)
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Hi Cedric!
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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So this is were everybody's hanging out. Cool.
I'm another SCGB member who will most likly be cancelling his membership.
I was only ever a part time poster on the SC forums, but I feel like I know most people here. Hopefully this site will grow and we wont need to go back to the old forum.
It was a mess anyway. This design of site is much, much better.
Big congrats to whoever set this up.
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 Actually, I just realised I hadn't expressed my gratitude for providing shelter for another exiled SCGB non-member. Muchas gracias U-brain!!
Eeyore (also Toni Adams)
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Thanks U-brain. Another disaffected SCGB member, though only an occasional poster.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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It's taken a while, but I've finally managed to find you! Great reaction to the SCGB decision, so glad that someone had the I.T. know how and the dedication to get this ( frankly, superior!) site up and running so quickly. I found you through j2ski and then skiboard, am sure others will do likewise and that you'll have no problem with publicity as we'll all be singing your praises at every available opportunity. If there was a good time for SCGB to take the action they have (there wasn't)and a new forum site to set up in its place this is probably as good as any when we're all pursuing our obsession with a vigour that may not have been so driven, in say, September. Shame about all the archived knowledge though, but hey it'll come and I've no doubt that all you ever patient 'oracles skiing wisdom' will continue to repeatedly answer the same questions from the rest of us as you did 'on the dark side'
Well done and lots of luck.
Last edited by Ski the Net with snowHeads  on Thu 12-02-04 15:58; edited 1 time in total
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FAQ
- we could use the dough to rent their clubhouse at Christmas and show them how to party (G+T anyone?)
