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Pretty sure we have that now? I don't think you can post a blank box, but I think you can edit down to one? You can definitely delete a post other than an opening one with no impact to anything else.

There's a difference between editing out the content of an opening post and deleting the post itself. Not being too much of a delete myself, I don't know, maybe there's a popup that warns you that if you delete this post you delete the entire thread. Or maybe not. On the reare occasion I have to delete a thread (usually a duplicate), I do it as a moderator. No idea what the poster interface does. anybody have recent experience with that?

I encouraged interested users to start a focused thread. Here it is, and for what it's worth, I'm a fan of the notion being put forth.

Well, I'm just hoping that it's nor Red Trumpet Redux with Mosaic here... For all the young people listening in this evening, Red Trumpet was a Pennsylvania-based mail-order house that was fantastic for all kinds of imports, Japanese in particular, and pretty good for all sorts of other things. Then they made a mistake and posted, what, the Miles Cellar Door? set for something like $39.99 and honored the orders that had been placed at that price before the caught their error (some that weasles @ Best Buy did not even consider, not that I blame them, but their tone...). Anyway, everybody loved Red Trumpet, I bought buttloads from them. And then one day they were gone. No advance warning, just poof, gone, by y'all. I don't recall if they fulfilled existing orders or just credited cards back, but these guys dropped STONE cold dead, right on the spot. It's a little different with Mosaic in terms of the product offered, but the same thing, whatever kind of delusion/hope you have of staying afloat somehow only to one day realize that it's over RIGHT NOW, that could happen to anybody.

As much as I'm hoping for another year or few, seriously, what's up with the warehouse/shipping thing? F-ed up distribution can choke your business, if you have any, as quick as anything,

Bob says that when making a logical argument, the closing sentence of the argument should summarize the main point, not divert away from it. You follow whatever logic stirs your soul and spirit. As for me, make Mine Bob. Thank you. This seems wholly logical. I would encourage any and all who would like to see this looked into further and perhaps be implemented to start a thread in the Forum, uh...forum and then pursue as befits.

Your final sentence that I quoted was inconsistent with your initial reference, and did not create a logical association with the reset of you thought. It was like you had these real facts and then created an alternative fact of a conclusion. Kind of bizarre, really, but maybe you were having a bad day or a beer too many? I don't know, do you even drink? Or have bad days? Here is you opportunity to defend yourself/. Bob is listening. Proceed.

Oh, I know. I'd like to see a Topps Mosaic. Then A Bowman Mosaic. Then a Post Mosaic. Fleer, not so much. Donruss, eh...Upper Deck, no need.

Again - I am a moderator, not an administrator. I do not have access to the forum software manual. Even if I did (and even if I knew enough about database management to understand those instructions, I still would not be able to do a damn thing about it. I wouldn't expect anybody to automatically know that, but now, it is known. Proceed accordingly - Please direct all such observations/suggestions/criticisms/etc. to the board's sole/solo administrator/owner. as he will be the only person who can do anything about it. Otherwise, thread drift is perhaps the oldest and grandest of the Organissimo traditions, liable to break out without warning any damn where, y'all should have well be knowing that by now. But - if anybody wants to get technical about it, this is my thread, the old one was killed on the baby's doorstep by it's owner, so I hereby fully authorize and encourage all tread drift that stays within accepted board practice. People who need permission, you have it. People who don't, love ya', babe! People who need to be pissed off, start your own damn thread and then delete it when you choose. But don't go asking other people to get pissed off strictly on your behalf. That ain't right. That just ain't right. Onward!

We lost the ability to retrieve & reactivate deleted thread a few years ago. When I say "we", I mean moderators - but I contacted Jim A about the same thing once, and he couldn't find a way to do it either. No, not "anybody who deletes his own posts". Only people who delete their own thread-starting post. Anybody/everybody else, delete all of your posts you want, nothing will happen except that they'll be gone. No "alternative facts", please! You cannot make a post on your microwave, nor can you delete a thread by deleting your Post # 1539 in it. If there's a setting in this software that allows for deletion of opening post/retention of thread (or a newer version of the software that allows for it), I'm unaware of it. I'm a moderator, yes, but not an administrator. I'm sure the board owner would be delighted to hear your suggestions in full detail, especially in the form of a complaint!

Just to make it clear, the only "power" over a thread that a non-moderator has is to delete their opening post. Any poster has the ability to delete their own post, of course, but when an opening post is deleted, it takes the whole thread with it. Seeing as how that's where the topic title and whatever database markers reside, I don't see how it could be otherwise. I agree it seems like a pissy thing to do, to open a thread and then delete it after it's gotten all conversational and shit, but afaik, the only other options are for the OP to delete the contents of the post but leave the thread open. A request to lock the thread can be placed, of course, but a perception of petulance about the direction a conversation has taken, all of it within board guidelines, is not enough to lock a thread, imo. This database shit, I understand very little of it, but I do know that this "power" to delete a thread resides in the hands of the user, not the software. Unless you want to have a system where nobody except a moderator can delete anything once posted, then this is how it's going to be.

What we don't know is if Mosaic has really pushed the issue of offerings hi-res downloads to whoever it would be pushed to. Maybe there's a different level of "peer-to-peer" in the executive chain that could extend the conversation. Or maybe not. Then again, isn't Don Was over at the Blue Note Boys getting that up and going for his home team? Maybe that's the deal - corporations are eyeing it as a future asset, so why let somebody else do it right now? I remain skeptical that the doing hi-res downloads of Chu Berry is on anybody's Five Year Plan, but you know how corporate works, they want bullet points, not detail, so "hi-res downloads" probably means the same thing to them, be it Chu Berry or Chuck Berry.

"All concerned"? "take action"? I do not understand. Some potentially interested parties check the board somewhat irregularly. With the thread deleted, these readers would not "get the news", at least not here, and I don't know who all Scott has been talking to. The whole thing is really, really niche-y, even in the best of times. So consider this a/the "replacement thread" to keep the news visible. Oh, and if every thread-drifted thread go deleted off the board, we'd have, like, what, one or two threads left?

An OP can always delete their own thread, by deleting the opening post. Otherwise, thread deletion capacity lies solely with moderators. Are you old enough to remember Red Trumpet? That was a BIG drag.

Shoulda wrote it down with an ink pen and a Big Chief.

Apparently the person who started the thread detailing the perilous state of EVERYBODY'S favorite old-fart retro-technology comprehensive jazz reissue empire did not like that the thread had begun to include a sub-current of a conversation about streaming, downloading, and other things, and deleted it. But just so you continue to know, apparently Mosiac's in trouble and we need to buy whatever we want that they have now, because the OP was told directly by Scott that the end is near, although they're going to fight on. Whatever else, I have confirmed with Moderator Larry that the deletion of the thread in question was not another one of his accidents, so y'all don't EVEN go there, ok?

Midway through Season 9 now (had to move from free Nextflix seasons to an Acorn $5/mo. Acorn subscription on Amazon to keep going), and all I can say is that A) Late 19th-early 20th Century Toronto apparently had no shortage of healthy hearty and handsome women, an endless supply, if you were looking for a wife, that would have been the place to go, the fully-covering clothing not disguising some very attractive people; & B) George Crabtree remains one of the more brilliant sidekicks in television history, the thinking mans' Barney Fife, perhaps, or a laughing man's John Watson. No matter, the series has stayed strong, the stories and the characters. potentially shark-jumping moments like kids and marriage all handled adrotilt with no changing of essence, just a good series done well, with dry humor and sly stories.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/30/arts/music/obituary-dick-contino-accordion-heartthrob.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fobituaries&_r=0 “He isn’t just sensational,” the gossip doyenne Hedda Hopper wrote, “he’s youth walking into your life.” But in 1951, as the Korean War headed into its second year, Mr. Contino, then only 21, was drafted into the Army and, after reporting to Fort Ord, near Monterey, Calif., bolted before his induction, overwhelmed by persistent neuroses including claustrophobia. He said he could not stand being fenced in at Fort Ord. “I could never describe the anxiety attack I had,” he told The Los Angeles Times in 1982. “I felt I had to leave.” He wandered San Francisco and entered a sanitarium before surrendering to the F.B.I. a few days later. He was indicted on a charge of refusing to submit to induction. After pleading guilty, he was fined $10,000 and served four and a half months in the federal penitentiary at McNeil Island, Wash. He entered the Army willingly in 1952 and spent much of his two years there entertaining troops in Korea. “These boys need entertainment,” he told United Press while in Seoul. “They all want to hear music. They want to forget they’re here, I guess.” Mr. Contino was pardoned in 1954 under the provisions of a general proclamation issued two years earlier by President Harry S. Truman that covered members of the armed forces who had been convicted of crimes before their induction. But despite his subsequent honorable service, the draft-dodger label dogged him. The sponsor of a proposed new band pulled out because of the publicity. The comedian Joey Bishop once brought him on as a guest on his late-night talk show, was enthusiastic about helping his career, but never had him on again. “Why did people resent me so much for years?” Mr. Contino asked in the interview with The Los Angeles Times. “Why would certain shows pencil me in but never use me?”

MATTHEW HALLS conducts NATHAN OLSON violin VIVALDI The Four Seasons BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral” Very detailed/nuances/sculpted readings of to works that could easily be made into wallpaper. Beethoven was nuts, had to have been. Halls brought a smaller-sized orchestra and lighter sound to the orchestra., and there were moments in the Vivladi where the sense was that the thing was going to turn into Phillip Glass with the light, echoey repetitions, the short phrases with extreme dynamic contours, and the limited harmonicnature of much of the music itself. A very interesting performance of some very familiar music.

Worth noting for the sake of comparative logical consistency that the Terry/Brookmeyer & the McPherson dates were done in different decades from each other. What the label was "about" in the 1960s was not the same as it was in the 1970s.

I get that it's a Zorn showcase, but every item being minor key (and most featuring the harmonic minor-ish "Middle Eastern" modality made for a difficult continuous listen for me. I didn't offer comments becuase after the first few tunes, I just shut down. The differences in instrumentation helped, but not enough, I'm afraid. Not a knock on the music or the presentation, just saying, after a while it all seemed like almost the same thing. Maybe that was the point? Of course, you can say the same thing about bebop, or trad, or free, or anything, really. Real variety is a booger to get to, period. Otherwise, I do appreciate your focus and applaud your keeping it new-ish. Also hope that the familial situation resolves itself without any unnecessary trauma, drama, and/or pain. We've all been there, so thoughts are with you and yours.