BS: one post thread

Subject: BS: one post thread
From: s&r
Date: 03 Sep 04 - 04:02 AM

Good luck jOhn - it should drop off the bottom today. Hope no-one spoils it

Stu

Subject: RE: BS: one post thread
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 03 Sep 04 - 04:06 AM

Spoils what? what are you loking for here? and have you some competition going with jOhn from 'ull? Best wishes.

Subject: RE: BS: one post thread
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 03 Sep 04 - 05:44 AM

This is now actually a two post thread....

Subject: RE: BS: one post thread
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Sep 04 - 05:53 AM

It is a reference to a thread that Sir jOhn started, advertising an 'interesting programme' which has had no other posters. It is in no way suggesting that jOhn should drop off, or indeed, anything drop of jOhn.

It wasn't very interesting, all I got was static.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: one post thread
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 03 Sep 04 - 06:39 AM

Don't look now, but there's another truly classic one post thread up in the music section right now, headed "lyr add Cumberland boys" Watch it plummet below the waterline before noon! Is this a conspiracy? Are Iraq and Bush Involved? I'll get my coat.............

Subject: RE: BS: one post thread
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 04 Sep 04 - 05:08 AM

Obviously, any open one-post thread, no matter how old, can be resurrected and added to, thus destroying its one-post status. Even closed threads can be re-opened so are not fully protected. However, I feel that the "year and a day rule" should apply. If a first posting has received no replies after a year and a day, it should be accorded one-post status forever.

I have a lyric request out there that is almost two and a half years old and Mudcat, normally the fount of all knowledge, came up with nothing. I even tried repeating the request as a slight thread drift on the discussion of a similarly named tune – and promptly killed that thread stone dead.

I almost made it again with a post on the 2002 Cleethorpes Folk Festival but someone used my post, just a few days short of the year and a day qualification date, to launch a very worthwhile discussion on the 2003 Festival.

Who else can claim one-post threads under the "year and a day" rule ?

Subject: RE: BS: one post thread
From: 42
Date: 04 Sep 04 - 09:04 AM

so Doug,

I haven't been around for two years so what's the lyric you're searching for?

j

Subject: RE: BS: one post thread
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 04 Sep 04 - 09:17 AM

It was this one

Over the Hills of Lancashire

Subject: RE: BS: one post thread
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 04 Sep 04 - 09:32 AM

I am not sure if the link above will work, so I tried to do it again but ended up refreshing the original thread by mistake.

If the link doesn't work, look upstairs.