# Refuge for Brits **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 19, 2003, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuge-for-brits/182898 "2003-06-19T11:38:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuge-for-brits/182898/21 "2003-06-19T12:24:55Z")
I’m currently downloading the free WWWBoard script, which I’ll try to install and will get back to you if it’s working. ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuge-for-brits/182898/22 "2003-06-19T12:32:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Exgineer \* > \*\*Mommy! MoOoommmmeeeee! > > The big, scary English man is being mean to me! \*\* makes a change - last time you went running to the French Garius Bitter and Twisted ex-Imperialist 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuge-for-brits/182898/23 "2003-06-19T12:37:15Z")
Ok, speaking as the board owner of G’Dope, all I can say to out British cousins is “go for it”. It’s well worth the effort (and occasional frustration), and I’m surprised we don’t already have a British board. It looks as though you’re in the same bind the Aussies were a year or two ago in that you’ve got loads of enthusiasm for this, but not the tech smarts to get a hosted server up and running. We decided to go the ezboard route, which I must say works quite well - on the proviso that you are willing to pay for the service. It’s relatively inexpensive, particularly if you share it, and _anything_ beats the popup hell that is ezboard’s free option (although we did put up with that ourselves for a while). We G’Dopers are unimaginative sods, and the board layout is a basic ezboard template, but you can customise the living heck out of it (Tim Brooke-Taylor in Union Flag shorts as a page background, etc). It supports UK date formats and various timezones, and the like. If you need any advice from somebody who’s done what you are planning, don’t hesitate to get in touch with me, or to drop by G’Dope, and ask. If you’d like a trial run, I can offer you your own Forum on G’Dope which you can moderate, customise etc yourselves until you get a critical mass of punters together to move to more permanent digs. Heck, we could probably come to some arrangement that you could stay there, but you’d probably get sick of the cricket jibes. Anyhow, if you need anything, let us know. ---
**Author:** ![pierre72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b2d939/32.png) [@pierre72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pierre72)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuge-for-brits/182898/24 "2003-06-19T12:41:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Francesca \* > \*\*How about an acronym? > > Non-American Dopers Society > > NADS. \*\* Ladies and gennelmen, I think we have a winner! ---
**Author:** ![pierre72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b2d939/32.png) [@pierre72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pierre72)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuge-for-brits/182898/25 "2003-06-19T12:45:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TheLoadedDog \* > \*\*Ok, speaking as the board owner of G’Dope, all I can say to out British cousins is “go for it”. It’s well worth the effort (and occasional frustration), and I’m surprised we don’t already have a British board. > > It looks as though you’re in the same bind the Aussies were a year or two ago in that you’ve got loads of enthusiasm for this, but not the tech smarts to get a hosted server up and running. We decided to go the ezboard route, which I must say works quite well - on the proviso that you are willing to pay for the service. It’s relatively inexpensive, particularly if you share it, and _anything_ beats the popup hell that is ezboard’s free option (although we did put up with that ourselves for a while). We G’Dopers are unimaginative sods, and the board layout is a basic ezboard template, but you can customise the living heck out of it (Tim Brooke-Taylor in Union Flag shorts as a page background, etc). It supports UK date formats and various timezones, and the like. > > If you need any advice from somebody who’s done what you are planning, don’t hesitate to get in touch with me, or to drop by G’Dope, and ask. > > If you’d like a trial run, I can offer you your own Forum on G’Dope which you can moderate, customise etc yourselves until you get a critical mass of punters together to move to more permanent digs. Heck, we could probably come to some arrangement that you could stay there, but you’d probably get sick of the cricket jibes. > > Anyhow, if you need anything, let us know. \*\* That sounds like a plan (provided you don’t mind us taking the piss out of your rugby team…!). ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuge-for-brits/182898/26 "2003-06-19T12:47:03Z")
I second NADS. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuge-for-brits/182898/27 "2003-06-19T12:50:19Z")
I’m setting a freebie community up on EZboard as we speak. damn. NADS is already taken. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuge-for-brits/182898/28 "2003-06-19T12:51:56Z")
I’m afraid I used Deurope (maybe the non-American thing’s a bit exclusive and rude anyway). Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuge-for-brits/182898/29 "2003-06-19T12:55:18Z")
Well though I used Deurope, it gave me BNADS 😕 Here’s the URL: [http://pub75.ezboard.com/bnads](http://pub75.ezboard.com/bnads) ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuge-for-brits/182898/30 "2003-06-19T13:01:38Z")
Looks nice. Empty, but nice. ---
**Author:** ![Hattrick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/34f0e0/32.png) [@Hattrick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hattrick)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuge-for-brits/182898/31 "2003-06-19T13:09:53Z")
how about Eur-a-Dope? or the dope-a-vision song contest (didn’t we have that one last month?) Nah we would have to vote every day to see who got null points ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuge-for-brits/182898/32 "2003-06-19T13:21:05Z")
Well come and join up then you lot. ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuge-for-brits/182898/33 "2003-06-19T13:23:21Z")
I have registered but am still waiting for the bloody email from EZboard to arrive. Can’t activate the damn account without it. ::sulk:: ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuge-for-brits/182898/34 "2003-06-19T13:26:35Z")
Make sure you join up as Global Members an’ all. That way you can pop over to G’Dope for a cuppa sometimes. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![pierre72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b2d939/32.png) [@pierre72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pierre72)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuge-for-brits/182898/35 "2003-06-19T13:27:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Exgineer \* > \*\*Looks nice. > > Empty, but nice. \*\* it’s from tiny acorns such as these… ---
**Author:** ![curly\_chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@curly\_chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curly_chick)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuge-for-brits/182898/36 "2003-06-19T13:29:26Z")
I am already an Ezboard global member, due to my nefarious activities elsewhere, which I am trying to hide from you, my Dopey mates. I **knew** this would catch up with me one day. ---
**Author:** ![mooka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@mooka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mooka)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuge-for-brits/182898/37 "2003-06-19T13:31:49Z")
In know its a bit late to suggest names now but… What about the United Dopers of Europe? European Union of Dopers? Hattrick - I quite liked the Dope a vision song contest as well! Does BNADS stand for anything now? British (Non American) Dopers Society? Just in case anyone thought Britain was one of the 50 states or something. Easy mistake to make… ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuge-for-brits/182898/38 "2003-06-19T13:37:28Z")
British or Non American Dopers BNADs ---
**Author:** ![Einmon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Einmon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Einmon)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuge-for-brits/182898/39 "2003-06-19T13:57:01Z")
I then would be a GNAD. Which is more fun to spell backwards. But nevermind. Account activated and ready to go. ---
**Author:** ![ouisey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9fc29f/32.png) [@ouisey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouisey)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuge-for-brits/182898/40 "2003-06-19T14:14:20Z")
Can I join, as an expatriate? I know who Penelope Keith is. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuge-for-brits/182898.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuge-for-brits/182898.md?page=3)