What's this MOVED stuff? This is supposed to be an open forum

[Louis of PA]

That's correct, but that's new in the last day ...

We changed it after we were informed by some members here that the original description Forum for general conversations about guns was incorrect and that it was an open "Cracker Barrel" forum for general conversations about guns, politics, OT (off topic), or whatever ...






Phil/Louis ...

To restate what we've said consistently over the last three weeks in various posts .....

When Gloria gets here and if she wants to move back to the old genre software on a different server, we'll help her to accomplish that. Remember, we only agreed to be a place holder to help save her site before the Unix box completely collapsed. I've told her in several conversations that her CSP community is welcome to stay here for free as our guests, for as long as they want, or until she decides if there's someplace else she'd like to take it. We're only an interim host for CSP, NOT the owners of it... the ownership, legacy and future belongs to Dick and Gloria to decide. If for some reason the Culvers are unable to get here to deal with those decisions, then we will be asking the CSP community to put together a committee to decide the future of their own community.

In the interim, we hired a systems guru who's one of the best in the business in regards to Unix, to organize the old server and back it up in a focused and structured manner, so we could get all of the old data, articles and pics off of it, to help guarantee and preserve Dick and Gloria's old site legacy.

After looking at it, he said he was surprised it was still running and he hadn't seen anything that convoluted in 20 years. He commented "I can certainly do this, it's going to take some time though. That server is a mess and there's stuff all over the place. I would safely say that it's a very large job to go through the whole box and get everything pulled together. There does seem to be a lot of data and the way its laid out just makes it hard to find everything."

We're doing the best we can with limited resources while holding down a full time job to pay the bills ....

Hope that helps clarify things again for everyone ....

Moderator,
Your efforts to help keep CSP intact are commendable, and I appreciate them; I realize you folks probably derive little or nothing out if it. That means you are good people who want to help others. I appreciate your patience and I hope you do not regard our little gripes as anything more than expressions of cultural shock. At our advanced age, change comes hard, and might be about the only thing that does.

Remember that we CSP retreads are generally old (I didn't say washed up), with failing eyes, failing ears and probably failing other parts that cannot be mentioned in polite society. We can stand erect and follow simple instructions, but only barely.

I think you for the efforts you folks have expended, to make it possible for we CSPers to maintain our unit integrity and esprit.

Thanks Much,
Louis of PA