Re: (ET) website

[Rob Brockway <GEtractor yahoo com>]

Thank you for the detailed history.  I have found this e-mail group to be 
very helpful!  I did not fully understand the other sites.
Rob Brockway


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> On Feb 4, 2019, at 8:59 PM, Jim Coate <lists freerangeelectric com> 
> wrote:
> 
> 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.
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