From: "Christopher England" <...>

Just been for a rock around the forums.

I see the Freeradio ones are now 'closed'. What happened there then? Was
there a fight I missed? Or am I confused with Digital Spy? Speaking of
them, can't seem to find anything on DS worthy of reading. A couple of
anoraky threads with the same fights and arguments of 10 years ago, and
that's it. Then on to the secret Long Wave forum and there's still a
number of conspiracy theories being mooted which are interesting and
made me laugh. It's always good to have a secret place to discuss other
people within, innit. There should be more of it. Then onwards I went to
Garry Stevens' house. Obviously been some fighting going on there, and
its dominated as usual by people needing to be worshipped for what they
once did many years ago, and failed to do more recently, but it's still
probably the best read around and there was evidence of Mr Stevens
having been out with the hedgetrimmers. Good on him.

I think it is probably the same people on all the different boards using different names which can be confusing at times. I saw a post on Garry Stevens board which, if I remember correctly, went along the lines of, "yeah we discussed this on anorak nation a while ago" and I didn't recognise the name, so the person obviously uses different names on each board. OK, I understand why people use aliases, hey Tony Blackburn might be posting on one of the boards under a different name, but at least let's be consistent!

Seemed to be a sad
absence of Peter Moore writing about something random but using it as an
opportunity to attack Neil Gates or even the wonderful me.

I quite like reading PM's posts, he does seem to be quite an interesting character, even more so when you get him talking on a non Caroline subject.

Then I did
try, honest, to get passed the first few threads at Media UK, but had to
leave to avoid having to slash my wrists. Heads, bottoms, up.

Always seems to be too serious when I have a look around there.

Lordy, is there no real good anoraky conversation ongoing anywhere?
Ideally a conversation without victims? All the boards seem to have
crusades and jihads in full force or they are repeating the same
conversations I read and joined in with a decade ago. Sigh. Is there
some weird sunspot activity going on making everybody mad and angry?

Yeah they do seem to be dominated by people taking a black or white stance, then throwing mud if they cannot construct a decent reasoned argument against the other guy.

Big L seems to suffer from this quite a lot, compared to where Big L actually stands in the market place, there seems to be a totally disproportionate number of threads about it! I just wish people would lighten up, after all it is only a radio station!
As for sun spots, I wouldn't really know about that, I'm a night owl, is there any such thing as Moon spots???? :-)