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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: mtnbkr on November 06, 2008, 11:04:19 AM
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When exactly did it start?
Chris
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Hehehehehehehehehehehehehehe...
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Why do you want to know?
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Why do you want to know?
If we told you, we would have to beat you with a rubber hose.
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If we told you, we would have to beat you with a rubber hose.
(sigh)
Alrighty then.
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If we told you, we would have to beat you with a rubber hose.
He'd probably enjoy it. Some folks pay for that sort of treatment.
Just trying to determine if Mike was around when RT was in existence there. I'm quite sure he was, but he says no.
Chris
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RT started in 2002 if I remember correctly. Mike wasn't even born then.
TC
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That early? I was thinking 2003.
Chris
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He'd probably enjoy it. Some folks pay for that sort of treatment.
Just trying to determine if Mike was around when RT was in existence there. I'm quite sure he was, but he says no.
Chris
January 06, 2003.
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But it's possible that you're looking at May, 2004.
That's my bid.
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But it's possible that you're looking at May, 2004.
That's my bid.
That's what I remember, as well, as the starting point for Round Table.
That was two months after I was gone.
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That's what I remember, as well, as the starting point for Round Table.
That was two months after I was gone.
I'm rather sure it's Jan 06, 2003.
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Google brings me archival information that shows an "off-topic" general discussion forum was still being requested in January 2004.
By August 2004 the RoundTable had been tried and abandoned.
Members' inability to remain civil cited as primary cause.
I will see if I can nail an "earliest" RoundTable post.
I may have to use the WayBack machine.
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Arfin,
You may be able to access the RT archive on thehighroad.us
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Try the WayBack Machine at www.archive.org ?
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Arfin,
You may be able to access the RT archive on thehighroad.us
I couldn't, but maybe I don't know how to do so in the forum software.
Anyway, the info is still in the DB, and that places the first thread started in RT as January 06, 2003.
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If we told you, we would have to beat you with a rubber hose chicken.
There. Fixed it for you.
Brad
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A rubber Fistful?
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Mike was gone. I remember finding out that a member was a co-worker of the great Irwin and asking him to pass on my regards.
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Yeah, Josh.
He's retired now, and I think one of his kids should be ready to graduate from college soon.
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Best I can come up with is May 2004 to August 2004.
There is some archival traffic that mentions the RoundTable being "closed to posting" as late as early 2005, with the remark that the forum would be going away altogether in April 2005.
Some confusion there. It looks like it may have been closed, re-opened, then closed again.
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It was that short-lived? I thought it lasted well over a year.
Chris
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Best I can come up with is May 2004 to August 2004.
There is some archival traffic that mentions the RoundTable being "closed to posting" as late as early 2005, with the remark that the forum would be going away altogether in April 2005.
Some confusion there. It looks like it may have been closed, re-opened, then closed again.
PM sent.
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Checking the archives... I'm up to the end of 2003 and no mention of the RT yet. I've got to go to the bank and head home, but I'll look some more this evening.
The RT was disappeared from public view on 4/10/2005, but that's all the info I can find so far.
I could make this simple and PM Mal H, but today's his birthday, so I won't.
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OK, got it.
Round Table opened May 24, 2004 and disappeared April 10, 2005.
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Mike was banned during the "Muslim Wars", towards the end IIRC. The Round Table was opened when the mods changed the rules for L&P to make it Legal and Political only. I forget the exact rule change and every effect it had except that threads to the tune of "should we kill every Muslim in the world / country / not in our country / set up interment camps / deport them?", "have any of them apologised for 9-11?", or "it is a fact that none of them have apologised for what they did on 9-11.", etc, etc, etc, where no longer allowed and L&P also had a much narrower focus afterwards. Lots of people where banned during that unpleasantness and the "community" was arguably killed. TFL was reopened at the same time the rules where changed and the RT was created. The Round Table was created to keep the community alive, but in Oleg's and some "import people's" opinion it was a failure despite most people thinking it was a success. After that RT was killed this site was opened shortly after.
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I was gone middle of March 2004.
As I thought, I was not there for the Round Table.