Re: [TML] What happened to Donald McKinney's Traveller page? Phil Pugliese 07 Apr 2016 20:33 UTC

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I'm in too...

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On Thu, 4/7/16, David Shaw <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] What happened to Donald McKinney's Traveller page?
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Thursday, April 7, 2016, 9:42 AM

 If you do set up a
 Patreon, I'm in.
 David Shaw
 On 7 Apr 2016 16:55,
 "Ethan McKinney" <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
 wrote:
 Michael,
 I don't want to pry into your family
 finances, but I suspect that the cost issue is with monthly
 server fees, not just DNS registration. If you're
 willing, you might be able to get donations from the
 Traveller community to fully fund the cost of maintaining
 the site. Just to throw out a wild guess, if the server
 costs $60/month, 60 people donating a buck each isn't
 even that many. I'm sure that several people would
 easily kick in $5 each, making it even easier to meet the
 goal.
 If you decide to do this, I suggest setting up
 a Patreon. Supporters (patrons) simply set up a monthly
 charge that will go to you--Patreon does take a cut for
 maintaining the donation site, doing the billing, and so
 forth. The fees aren't bad. The campaign shows how much
 is pledged in real time so that particularly enthusiatic
 supporters can raise their monthly pledge to cover any
 shortfall. I wouldn't object at all if you or your
 family kept any funding beyond the minimum as compensation
 for your time.
 You may eventually discover that some folks
 want to provide updated material for your father's
 site.
 Ethan McKinney
 On Apr 7, 2016 7:34
 AM, "Michael McKinney" <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
 wrote:
 So folks, the reason why Don McKinney's page
 is no longer up online is financial.
 Sorry about that folks.
 On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at
 9:30 AM, Michael McKinney <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
 wrote:
 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,
  <xxxxxx@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, xxxxxx@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.
 >
 > --
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 > University of Arizona
 > College of Pharmacy
 > Information Technology Group
 >
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