Ed Forum no more?

[Mark Ulrik]

Duncan better prepare for a surge in membership requests.

[Benjamin Cole]

Not just a technical glitch?

Supposedly they were paid up for a while.

How sad if the site went down, before it could be arranged for the Smithsonian to archive content. 

[John Corbett]

Not just a technical glitch?

Supposedly they were paid up for a while.

How sad if the site went down, before it could be arranged for the Smithsonian to archive content. 

What makes you think the Smithsonian would be interested in that kind of drivel?

[Tom Graves]

What makes you think the Smithsonian would be interested in that kind of drivel?

As a testament to how effective KGB disinformation has been on gullible people.

[Lance Payette]

I noticed that too this morning. It was the Invision hosting that was in James Gordon's name, and they were completely unable to contact him. It could be that they are transitioning and it will appear back up with the old content restored - or maybe not. To be fair, although the Ed Forum has gone off a cliff dating back at least to the appointment of Sandy Larsen as a moderator, the older content would be invaluable and worth saving unless one just doesn't think the JFKA is worth discussing at all. After the appointment of Sandy, that became the worst-moderated forum I've ever seen (not just due to Sandy by any means).

I had never heard of Invision, but I just looked at their site. I spend more on golfballs than it costs to host an Invision forum (Titleist ProV1x are upwards of $50/dozen). I never understood why all these supposed JFKA heavyweights went through an agonizing exercise every year about "Oh, my God, how are we going to pay for this???" Is the market for JFKA crap so miniscule that Jimbo and Larry Hancock, et al., can't assume the burden? (My guess is, the answer is yes.)

[Lance Payette]

It occurred to me as a rather poignant reminder of The Good Old Days at the Ed Forum, when James Gordon, Kathy Beckett and Mark Knight were the moderators. I kind of specialized in being an irritating, in-your-face LN agitator (I find it enjoyable on all forums to adopt a persona that is sorta-kind me but not entirely, and I think this is inevitable even if you don't consciously do it). NOT ONCE was I admonished, warned, suspended or otherwise disciplined for ANYTHING. NOT ONCE. When I asked to have my account closed, Kathy - whom I'm pretty sure wasn't an LNer - said she was sorry to see me go and I was welcome back anytime. Almost immediately thereafter, it became an absolute reign of terror under Sandy and NiederNut. I would have been banned the first day.

[Tommy Shanks]

Lance, I happened to be reading some threads there earlier this week and that Niederhut fella is one of the nuttiest personalities I've ever seen! Could you imagine being that guy's patient and not knowing what he was really up to in the Internet in his spare time?