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So Jim is correct -
We started the second forum because the original Dan Barry site was essentially no longer working. No new accounts could be created, and there were a few other problems. Several people made several different attempts to get a hold of Dan including emails, phone
calls, and snail mail. The assumption was something happened to Dan, and the decision was made to create a second site, after trying to scrape as much as we could from the old site.
Well we spun up a new site, and Dan came out and fixed his old site. So there were two. I started with about 5 admins, and that quickly dwindled down to just myself. A few months back i got a "Why does this site exist" email from a user who pointed out that
there were two facebook pages already and the original web site. The majority of new user accounts were for posting "for sale" ads. I have no affiliation with the old site, and if i knew that it was going to disappear again i would have kept the second site
up.
After posting on here, I had a few people reach out to me with interest in taking over the site, but i did not receive any follow ups until after the site was shutdown. As for the domain name i still own it and would be more than happy to transfer to anyone
who would like to take it over.
------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2019 18:59:34 -0700 From: Jim Coate <lists freerangeelectric com> To: Elec-trak List <elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu> Subject: Re: (ET) website Message-ID: <4f2810b4aacbda057def0c662caaa618 freerangeelectric com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Perhaps a little history review is in order, at least as I know it. There are TWO forums out there and only one has been intentionally shut down: Back in 2001 or 2002 Dan Barry started the first web-based Elec-Trak forum at elec-trak.org and also under the elec-trak.com name. He has kept it going all these years (a thankless task only noticed when it stops working!) and as of December 2018 was doing a software rebuild to slow down the hackers. I'm don't know if the current error message means it got hacked again on what. In 2013 (at the peak of George B's excitement), some folks splintered off and started a second Elec-Trak forum at ge-electrak.com. As RJ noted, David Plamondon posted in November 2018 of his intent to shut that site down the first of January this year given the lack of users. There is a good chance that once he allowed the domain name to expire it was immediately snarfed up by a "squatter". I'll try and get hold of Don Barry later this week and find out what is up with his site which has the more extensive archives. I'm not sure how much "our numbers are down" and how much we are just much more spread out now... it went from just this e-mail list (started in 1998 or maybe earlier) to one then multiple dedicated web forums, then Facebook, plus general garden tractor forums with sub-sections on electrics and more. Too many places in the virtual world to keep track of! On 02/04/2019 9:50 am, Timothy Chapin wrote: > web site has been taken down. > > On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 11:35 AM Mike Finck via Elec-trak > <elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu> wrote: > >> I guess I missed something a while back. When I go to elec-trak.org >> [1] or ge-electrak.com [2] I get a message "This account has been >> suspended, contact your hosting provider for more information". Is >> it referencing just my account or has the website been taken down? >> Mike. >> _______________________________________________ >> Elec-trak mailing list >> Elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu >> https://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/mailman/listinfo/elec-trak > > -- > > Tim Chapin > ITS-SQL Server DBA > > Monday-Friday 8:00am to 4:30pm. > > > > Links: > ------ > [1] http://elec-trak.org > [2] http://ge-electrak.com > _______________________________________________ > Elec-trak mailing list > Elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu > https://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/mailman/listinfo/elec-trak -- Jim Coate www.FreeRangeElectric.com Home of The Electric Tractor Store ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ Elec-trak mailing list Elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu https://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/mailman/listinfo/elec-trak ------------------------------ End of Elec-trak Digest, Vol 17, Issue 9 **************************************** |