WoST: Recent Moves

[juppiter]

Frankly, it's fun. I don't see why we can't have both soap opera discussion and [s.W.S.N.B.N.] v. Everyone Else wars on this message board. I don't see it as disruptive at all. SON traffic would probably double!

[Vee]

Please stop getting high.

[juppiter]

Vee, is this NOT fun? If it's not, all members have the opportunity to not participate.

But frankly [s.W.S.N.B.N.] is so freaking crazy that I feel she's a pleasure to have. She's kinda like SON's Kimberly Shaw.

[Chris B]

That is true and why would she need to create more buzz when she had gigs on Y&R and DAYS? In fact it doesn't make much sense because the buzz caused by EK4L is probably what caused her those jobs and any future ones.

Years ago on another board I was accused of being an insider based on a matching IP. Of course all these years later we know lots of AOL users have the same IP. [!@#$%^&*] having a matching IP has never been solid enough for me, having experienced it as well.

Of course who knows? If she's really EK4L then she totally ruined her soap career. Such a shame because I do think she did good work at Y&R.

[ClassicsSoapFan]

Brian,

Thanks for the WoST website. I am sorry that you had to go through all that crap!

Your ATWT 50 Anniversary Tribute is unrivaled! Nowhere,not in the magazines,on news shows,on ATWT itself was there a tribute half as good as yours. The Edge of Night tribute,Guiding Light tribute and Dark Shadows tributes were great too.

Also,you showed clips of one of my favorite shows of all time,"Secret Storm"! I enjoyed seeing Donna Mills in action and Jada Rowland. Speaking of,thanks for the Rowland interview,the Don Hastings interview ,the Harding LeMay interview and the others! The wonderful themes,especially the piano and oirgan classics were wonderfull! The pleasure and enjoyment I got out of WoST made the price I paid an unbelievable bargain and a steal!!!!

Again,I am sorry for the crap you had to put up with on the message board. Believe me when I say I understand!

Thanks,

James

[jfung79]

Okay, I am not trying to feed ammunition to [s.W.S.N.B.N.] (if that's who this is), but I am curious what the lies about the soap writer Todd Strasser are concerning, that are referred to here. Is it related to my earlier question about the "Oh my! LOL" comment with regard to Soapsbuff? Thanks for anyone who can shed more light on this.

Sorry for contributing to this WOST thank you/goodbye(ish) thread turning into a [s.W.S.N.B.N.] thread though.

[jfung79]

I should explain that I'm curious about this because I've relied on Soapsbuff's messages before for gaining more understanding of my favorite writer Richard Culliton, who worked on the GL writing team at the same time as Todd Strasser. So if there's something that should make me doubt those messages, I want to know about them so I won't be using potentially faulty information. Thanks!

[Countryfan]

I too am a WoST member and I miss the message board a lot. Brian's site will probably never be duplicated or equalled, and it's a shame that it's all but gone. Tyler

[TC]

Brian I am so sorry that this has happened to your website. I used to post on the forum but kind of gave up around 2004. I admire you for holding out so long. Back then there was certainly a contingent of prolific nutcases you tried hard to keep in check. I can't imagine it getting worse but I believe you if you say it did.

Nevermind. Your site is historic and shall be remembered that way. The forum was legendary, epecially in its early years. WOST's forum will be missed and you will be too.

Please promise us you'll touch base here once in a while. You are a true inernet + soaps visionary and we need your input; just as you need ours in the unlikely event that our stories experience a renaissance. We'll be waiting for you.

I will never be able to fully express the gratitude I felt hearing hearing the music from One Life to Live's early nineties platinum period at your site. In 1998 my basement flooded and all of my recordings were destroyed.

There will come a time

[jacks]

can someone summarize what some of this drama with the she who shall not be named is? even if it's just a brief message, I'm curious. i went to WOST for yrs. back in middle and high school but stopped for a while when we didn't have the Internet but got back on when I got my own connection. I never cared much that there was a fee because I had always wondered why you wouldn't charge for bandwidth or something like that before. But anyways, I was shocked about the forums closing. I had heard about Brian receiving nasty messages and knew he had enough and the site would be gone in a couple of years but the forums I had no idea. I understand why things had to go away but maybe a two week notice or something would have been helpful. Oh well. As long as I have the "My Guiding Light" theme (the dance version of 87') I'll be able to sleep at night. Thanks for the memories Brian!

[jes_roth]

it has come to my attention since i am a wost subscriber.brian has posted a sunsetbeach gallery.so does this mean the site is up and running again as a free site or still going to be taken down

[GoldenDogs]

Hi Jes,

I made a mistake when attempting to change the index page and update the subscriber database a couple of days ago. This weekend I'm not home so I don't have access to the changed pages/files on the home computer that SHOULD have been uploaded for the site, so for the time being I had to upload an older version of the index page. There isn't much I can do about the database issue until tomorrow afternoon when I get home, so enjoy the freebie in the meantime.

Brian

[aMLCproduction]

BRIAN Thank you so much for the freebie this weekend. I was in heaven when I was able to see my fav openings

EON(Esp the ending theme 83/84. So Jazzy!!!!

SFT

ATWT LOVE THAT 80"S THEME!!!!

AMC( ALL OF THEM) before 2002

[jes_roth]

i have heard from other people that were wost members,they told me proctor and gamble made brian shut down wost.and some say brian is facing jail time..because of all the money he made off copyrighted soaps ..i was just told this by other wost members so please do not attack me personally

thank you

[JamesF]

I'm sure other people will step in but I may as well say, that is a complete lie.

P&G were aware of and supported the website. Brian is not facing jail time. He also made no money from the website. So all wrong.