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Weekly Caption Contest Each week members would provide a caption to a photo provided by any number of Forums members. The most popular non-Ripper area of the boards, its still going strong. Steve 'String' Moore has been a valuable contributor to the WCC. Individual Forums Section Members may use this section to establish threads on any subject they wish, under their control. Several areas of case study will attract passionate debate, which often turns into a bar-room brawl. With the Individual Forums Section, the member can present his viewpoint without any criticism, positive or negative. It is up to the reader to decide whether the theory has merit or not and ask the thread's creator for permission to participate. It is up to the thread creator to decide whether he or she wants to engage in discussion on his or her point of view. Registration Policy Most websites in any field of endeavor, not just Ripperology, find people usually registering under aliases or unusual handles. On the Forums, it was decided that we'd register people under their full names to avoid the silly screen names and spammers. Of the latter pestilence I will give a graphic example as to why our registration policy is different than almost every site in any field you'll come across. I temporarily lifted the disabling feature which allowed people to register without any further requirements from management. Within ten minutes, more than ten spammers had registered. I immediately removed those screen names and disabled the feature. Besides, unless you are an SPE or CGP, letters to people's names which are familiar to everyone in the field, using one's full name carries a certain responsibility which I believe manifests itself in how members conduct themselves, if not all the time, then nearly all. Points To Ponder A section of the boards where members vote on the most likely scenario or answer to the question presented to them. They include retrospective questions such as 'What would you do if you were in charge?' and other provocative theories. These are the major site features which stand out in my mind. Now, on to the major players who have helped build the boards. JTRForums, it can be said, took it up a major notch when we obtained a copy of the O'Donnell Manuscript, the never-released 350-page work written in 1959 by British journalist Bernard O'Donnell entitled This Man Was Jack The Ripper. The manuscript, which attempts to pin the murders on writer and fantasist Roslyn D'Onston, was made available through the generous efforts of Andy Aliffe, talented researcher and BBC personality, in October 2006. After struggling with the technical side of putting the massive work on the boards, it finally appeared in the latter part of October and early November of the same year. This was the first major step in the rise of JTRForums. Other individuals who helped the Forums getting established include researcher and asylum history expert Mark Davis of Bradford. Mr Davis helped me in acquiring some otherwise inaccessible sources. Stewart Evans provided scans of hundreds of his personal files which have been of importance to researchers in that the documents he shared would otherwise not have been seen and therefore not used in future books and articles. Mike Covell, whose efforts in the area of D'Onston-related research have been instrumental in making the site the foremost repository of D'Onston-related material anywhere. Recently added members to the cadre like Jerry Dunlop, Anna Morris, Gary Barnett and Sean Crundall, have augmented the Forums with their approach, intelligence and insights, which combined with Rob Clack, Mark Ripper, Tom Wescott, Chris Phillips and others make the Forums an ideal place for researcher participation. Newcomers are always welcome, some of whom have taken the bull by the horns and entrenched themselves on the boards. Above all, if there was a Most Valuable Ripperologist award, that would go to Debra Arif, whose name is synonymous with Ripperological research. There isn't enough time to list her Forums contributions on LeGrand, Brodie, D'Onston etc, to name but a few, and help in acquiring new sources and helpful assistance in numerous other capacities. Ripperologist 147 December 2015 22
I've been focused on newspapers for the past eight years almost entirely as a result of a fortuitous 3:00am chat room conversation with the late, great Chris Scott. Chris discussed his experiences as a newspaper trawler and put the fire and passion back into a researcher at the crossroads (me) who wasn't sure which road he would take in Ripperology. One area in which the Forums needs to step up is exposure. We aren't as visible as Casebook is, although we're usually mentioned in the credits of recent book releases, far more often than not. That will be an area I need to shore up on during the next ten years. I had tried to institute a JTR 's.i.g.' ( special interest group) in MENSA, even rejoining to do so, but that didn't shape up as planned. Word of mouth is fine, but to reach younger people and other curious civilians, I need to do more. Most of the active Forums members (numbers fluctuate from 106 to 96 active) are authors... all of the current Forums Moderators (myself, Nina Brown, Tim Mosley, Robert Anderson and Jon Rees... not to forget former Moderators Jules Rosenthal, Mike Covell, and Adam Went) have had their written work published in one or more of the Ripper magazines. Jon Rees and I handle JTRForums on YouTube, while Robert Anderson, Jon and myself handle the Forums on Facebook. We're an active group of people, not just a bunch o' pretty faces. As to future goals, it's our desire and my priority to keep JTRForums at the forefront of current developments... making sure the membership and the people who depend on the Forums for Ripper news get it almost as soon as it happens. In today's world, we have an extraordinary advantage over the pioneers in Ripperology, in that we have instant, on-the-spot capabilities to relay information in a manner few thought technologically possible. We're trying to make sure we take advantage of that ability. The reader should look in every day to see what's new in our fast moving field. I am very grateful to each and every member of the Forums, past and present. I hope our collective relationship will continue for many years ahead. I appreciate the opportunity afforded me to share this information with Ripperologist magazine's readership. Should you decide to become involved with the Forums, contact me at your leisure at one of these two addresses: howard@jtrforums.com or donston1888@aol.com. Thank you. Howard Brown Proprietor, JTRForums.Com Eagleville, Pennsylvania Ripperologist 147 December 2015 23
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