To advertise to the world their mastery of technology, managers of many of the BBC message boards have decided . . . to close them at night.

The BBC folk board, for instance, is now closed between 22:00 and 07:30 GMT.

They don't store your message and post it the next day as they used to, you just can't post.

So that's me stuffed, then. And one or two others, I suspect. Shame, as I enjoyed posting there.

As Spike Milligan said of the BBC in one "Goon Show" - "The BBC. Hold it up to the light; not a brain in sight".

The idiots.

Gray D