Please don't give up. Your insight, expertise and know how, not only in bbc basic, is invaluable IMHO. What if you announce that you move your support to the facebook group, and that you loosely,

I have no qualms about FB knowing all about me as I use it to publicize my site including such as my BBC4W efforts. It is far more sensible than Twitter with its severe restriction on the size of a

Me too. Last night I joined the Liberty Basic Yahoo Group and

---In bb4w@..., <davidfeugey@...> wrote : Do I understand that you have deliberately sabotaged the BBC BASIC Facebook page? Or my personal Facebook account? With 'supporters' like

---In bb4w@..., <g3nrw-radio@...> wrote : They can't - Facebook is transient (well, old posts may be archived, but aren't normally searchable as far as I know). If the question

Richard Quite by coincidence, and nothing to do with BB4W, my daughter persuaded me recently to set up a Facebook account -- I was told I was a "dinosaur" missing out on "modern" communication. Then,

Facebook is amazingly popular: I don't think I personally know *anybody* who does not at least have an account which they use 'passively' to keep tabs on family members. The interface is extremely

Richard I don't understand this. I own several closed Yahoo groups for software development discussions. By setting the access permissions appropriately, these groups are totally invisible to anyone

---In bb4w@..., <davidfeugey@...> wrote : Perhaps not better, but probably just as good. I'm not aware of any particular privacy issues, and I would have far more confidence

This isn't (or didn't use to be) a problem. Under yahoo you have a yahoo id, and with that you can associate several email addresses. For example I think I can post to yahoo groups from one of

J.G.Harston wrote: If people need to know how to do this: Sign on to Facebook. Go to the BBC BASIC page at https://www.facebook.com/bbcbasic Ensure you've clicked on Like so that you have Liked the

Eddy Jacobs wrote: I signed up to Facebook and set the "email me posts" option on groups I'm interested in, and then only go in when something interests me. I wonder if it would be possible to get

As a dedicated lurker I would be happy to use Facebook (where I am a member of several closed groups) to keep up to speed with BB4W matters. --

Hi Richard, Like Eddie Jacobs, I may not contribute but also like reading about what other people have achieved, and the answers to certain problems. I am an avid Facebook user for keeping in

"How many of you use Facebook, Twitter or another social media ? " Not using Facebook, Twitter, .... overhere. Sorry. Eddy To: bb4w@... Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2015 7:36 PM

To those who have suggested I use an email mailing list I'm afraid I am not interested in that option. I am aware that Yahoo! supports an optional email interface to this group (and the

I think the best solution would be to just ignore these people. The other people on the conforums board are surely mature enough to recognize an unproductive troublemaker.After a while these will get

I appreciate both your efforts and the problems. For some years I was a major contributor to a forum on video and production but eventually simply had to abandon it because of an influx of bigots and

Dear Richard Your help and advice in the past have been very welcome and appreciated. The "old" system, where I used to get daily emails, was very useful and I was always interested to read peoples'

I am unable to offer a solution to the problem. I can only say how sorry I am you have encountered this problem and hope you will find a viable alternative. Only comment is that there will