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Post by fox on Jun 29, 2006 13:43:40 GMT -6
I just checked by the Kabal site. It is a classical fencing forum that is, I believe, the home forum of cfaustus, and it appears to have been hacked. kabal.cfssda.org/
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Post by cfaustus on Jun 30, 2006 5:15:28 GMT -6
Yah, it is actually only the forum site for our two organizations: The Classical Fencing Society (CFS) & Kabal Fencing Each org has its own website CFS: www.cfssda.orgKabal: www.kabalfencing.orgWe are going to replace the forum with a Campfire Chat Interface. THe new URL will be: cfssda.campfirenow.comThe current site is PHP-NUke driven and is just too vulnerable to hackers as well as being very poorly documented and as such, difficult to modify.
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Post by charley on Jul 2, 2006 23:10:21 GMT -6
Sounds good. How do we sign up?
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Post by ironrod on Jul 9, 2006 10:09:17 GMT -6
Yes. How do we sign up?
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Post by Aldo N on Jul 9, 2006 10:20:54 GMT -6
From everything he has written here, I doubt schlager7 would mind if you used this board to keep in touch until your own is up and running (physical distance is largely meaningless on the world wide web).
Schlager7, correct me if I am wrong. I don't mean to speak for you.
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Post by ironrod on Jul 9, 2006 10:39:48 GMT -6
Thank you.
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Post by schlager7 on Jul 10, 2006 14:49:30 GMT -6
Certainly, I see no problem in the classical fencers, regardless of area, making use of this board. I have never been real rigid on the "local" angle.
Besides, in truth, most classical forums are not all that busy. You could easily combine every post in most of them, plus the classical fencing newsgroup and we could handle the load easily.
Please, make yourselves at home.
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Post by cfaustus on Jul 11, 2006 9:59:25 GMT -6
Thank you for your kind offer. We are still getting the gist of the Campfire interface. it is pretty neat and we have seen an increase in activity by our own members... although, the conversation has drifted from fencing at times.
Right now, the way the Campfire interface works, you have to be invited - either to become a full member or to contribute as a guest.. We are in the process of establishing open rooms for guests to participate in... once we have that well established with our members, I will post the link so that you can join in the conversation as well. We do not mean to be insular and look forward to all of you visiting. We simply beg your patience as we get things set up.
Thank you again.
-Alexis La Joie (cfaustus)
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Post by ironrod on Oct 7, 2006 7:58:38 GMT -6
How is the new forum coming along? When will we be able to join in?
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Post by schlager7 on Oct 30, 2006 11:59:23 GMT -6
From the look of it, it is still only open to those already given a password... Is this a trend in classical fencing fora? Jack of SwordsFencers UniteClassical Fencing SocietyOther than the Classical Fencing Mail List, I think Adam Crown is running the only generally open classical forum right now. There is, of course, some classical discussion on the old rec.sport.fencing (a newsgroup that, I will add, was organized by a University of Houston fencer in the early 1990s). Of course, it is not used as much as it once was.
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Post by cfaustus on Nov 20, 2006 14:51:35 GMT -6
Ok, I have not been back here for a while and had not realized that the state of our little chat app had caused so much consternation.
First, I would like to assert that the continued lack of entrance to the CFS chat is due not to us being insular or some conspiratorial plot to keep everyone in the dark, but rather, lack of time on my part to set things up the way I liked before inviting outsiders to join in.
You see, the last few months have been busy. There was the smallsword workshop two weeks ago and we just had Maestro Acosta-Martinez out to do a workshop on the Rohdes system. Preparing for these two things has taken priority over the chat... In addition, when I was working on the website, I have been putting my energy into implementing an AJAX UI infrastructure to make the website more interactive and to make maintenance easier for me. Oh, yeah, I also got married this fall...
so there have been a few distractions.
As for the chat, it is a paid for service which only allows a limited number of participants at any given time. So, once I do open it up, you may have to wait in queue to get access... It is a rather nice interface, however, and it does archive all discussions so you can see what others have been talking about in your absence.
Now that the workshops are over, I hope to have a little more time to devote to other things and should get the CFS chat open soon... a little more patience...
We do spend a great deal of time actually fencing.
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Post by cfaustus on Nov 20, 2006 15:20:49 GMT -6
By the way, a more interesting trend in CF forums is not them shutting others out, but rather, people losing interest in them. This seems to be directly related to exessive activity by certain individuals who post on all the open forums. They spread their views as gospel truth dropping names of historic texts and masters and unrelated anecdotes, however their views seem to be backed by little or no solid education in the traditional schools. Such activity on the sites has driven away several excellent fencing masters from the discussion and generally squashed the discussion on those forums. This is what happened to CFML and what is happening on Crown's site.
We want to strike a balance. Ideally, our site will foster discussion of actual traditional fencing, however, as the fencing community is small enough that we know most of the charletains out there, they will be barred to a certain extent. Basically, the way I envision it will be tiered access.
More soon....
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Post by schlager7 on Nov 21, 2006 8:47:12 GMT -6
This seems to be directly related to exessive activity by certain individuals who post on all the open forums. They spread their views as gospel truth dropping names of historic texts and masters and unrelated anecdotes, however their views seem to be backed by little or no solid education in the traditional schools. Such activity on the sites has driven away several excellent fencing masters from the discussion and generally squashed the discussion on those forums. Interesting, perhaps I am just used to the more animated discussions from Fencing Net and Fencing Forum and here, but even at their most rancorous the classical fora seem sedate in comparison. Fencers tend to be free thinkers and an opinioned bunch on their slow days. Several could well be classified as iconoclasts. Like any group, we also have our share of name-droppers and charletains. To each their own. Disagreements and raised hackles will occur. I think these are, at worst, annoyances. Personally, the internet has allowed me to make contact with, and learn from, a host of living sources. To me the potential for increasing my knowledge and widening my perspective far outweighs the irritation of the stray gadfly. Locally, this particular forum was born at a time of great animosity. Its first months were liberally sprinkled with rancor. After a time, enough steam was released. Some calmer heads began to post. We got to know each other by our words and thoughts and not by who we fenced for/with. I like to think it has built at least as many bridges as it has burned.
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Post by cfaustus on Nov 21, 2006 11:54:01 GMT -6
Ok, here is the url to enter the chat as a guest. Access as a guest is somewhat limited, but I think it will be a good starting point. cfssda.campfirenow.com/d707b
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