Providence it seems, drew me to Traveller. In my last year of Grad School, I was challenged by a Professor to take my Geographic Theory on Space Warfare, and use the Russian-Soviet program as a case study, since they do Space Aggressively.

Along the way, Dad and I talked about Traveller a lot, and it reinvigorated my own love for Space and for this game. I admit my knowledge of the game is limited (but when I am back home, I have my father's 30 years of collected books and writings to look at). In many ways, Dad was a historian for Traveller, but I see myself almost as an archaeologist when I look through his stuff.

I enjoy how much the community has tolerated my own ramblings at times. In RL, I actually ramble for jobs, and do technical documentation to satisfy my rambling. HAHA

I have to say that I am constantly impressed by the Traveller community. I learn daily how large my dad's role was, but I am impressed by the civility and kindness many have shown me and my mom, in different formats. And since we're a gaming family, there's no way we would give up my dad's collection or hobby. Mom occasionally judges me (she's a Fantasy Nerd, not a space one), but I do not regret, and I have enjoyed the journey so far with you all.

Let me know in 6 months though if you still appreciate my rambling input. HAHA

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 10:37 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

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Just want to say, & I'm sure the TML is with me on this, that your efforts are greatly appreciated & that it's great that you're here with us contributing to the discussions.

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On Thu, 4/7/16, Michael McKinney <archangel620@gmail.com> wrote:

Subject: Re: [TML] What happened to Donald McKinney's Traveller page?
To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
Date: Thursday, April 7, 2016, 6:30 AM

Hey
folks,
Don McKinney's
son here. We still have all of dad's content and
information for Traveller. There hasn't been an
intentional purge. However, I am betting when my mother
renewed the Go-Daddy account for Winter War, she did not
keep authorization for the subdomain. I have inquired with
her to know if she knows something.
If it is just down because of
access, I'll see if we can at least get a static version
of it up. But it's important to remember that without
dad being here, that page is UNLIKELY to update ever
again.
While I retain
all of my father's Traveller books, works, and
documents, the information on that page was shared with the
circle around Marc Miller so that way he knew about
it.
In any case, if
the page can be brought up, I will see if we can. But it may
just have been an oversight issue because I didn't even
know about the page myself until 2 months ago. It was one of
the many things I learned as his son, in my father's
passing, as I went through and organized
stuff.
I'll keep
you updated if I find anything out.
On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 6:00
PM, B Kruger <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
wrote:
It looks like those pages were a subdomain of winterwar.org of which Don
was the chairman.
I suspect either the gaming group or Don's
son has requested the pages be taken down as the DNS entries
no longer exist.
Brett.
On 07/04/2016 7:41 AM,
<tmr0195@comcast.net>
wrote:
Hello
Bruce Johnson,

Thank you for the reply and
suggestion about using archive.org.
The answer is no I have not tried
since I just stumbled on to the problem.

I know
that about three weeks ago I could still access the site. I
also have
copies I downloaded and
saved to my hard drive.

I did check archive.org about the Merchant
Prince Trader program mentioned
here recently.

Tom R

From: "Bruce
Johnson" <xxxxxx@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU>
To: "TML" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 6, 2016 2:31:31
PM
Subject: Re: [TML] What happened
to Donald McKinney's Traveller page?

Have you tried the
WayBack Machine at the Internet Archive?

<https://archive.org/web/>

I found
captures of his site there back in 2012 that resulted in
those PDF’s.

This is a wonderful service.

> On Apr 6,
2016, at 1:56 PM, tmr0195@comcast.net
wrote:
>
> Hello
all,
>
> I was
checking the MgT Traveller Errata forum with this link http://dmckinne.winterwar.org/pdfs/ConsolidatedTravellerErrata.pdf
got the message that
>
> This page can't be displayed
> Make sure the web address http://dmckinne.winterwar.org
is correct.
>
>
Next, I went to FFE's errata page clicking on the links
there. The Consolidated CT Errata and Errata T4 General
returned the same message
>
> Then I tried Donald McKinney's home
page and I got the same message.
>
> Can anyone let me know where all the great
stuff Donald McKinney had on the site went to and is there
going to be a new place to find the good stuff?
>
> Tom R
>
> From: "Bruce
Johnson" <xxxxxx@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU>
> To: "TML" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 5, 2016 10:43:06
AM
> Subject: Re: [TML] TML Archive
available on the web
>
>
> > On Apr 4, 2016,
at 9:40 PM, Thomas Jones-Low <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
wrote:
> >
> >
I was asked are the TML archives, other than the
ones at simplelist (which go back to April 2014) available
on the web (i.e. publicly).
>
> I have an archive from ’87 to 2002-ish
here <http://dbdev2.pharmacy.arizona.edu/archives/TML_Archives.html>
At the very end of the list is a link to a zip file with all
of them you can peruse locally. I’ll see if I can find a
copy of them from the Travellercentral era.
>
> --
> Bruce Johnson
>
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> College of
Pharmacy
> Information Technology
Group
>
>
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