Communicata canned the old BBS ?

Coz as Clarky said its a year old on Tuesday.

-- Anonymous, March 04, 2001

Answers

I'll start - on a course in Anaheim, California.

-- Anonymous, March 04, 2001

At work in Sale. Glug, glug, glug.................

-- Anonymous, March 04, 2001

I was sitting at me computer wondering what the effing hell was going on. It was like the end of the world as we know it. Devastated I was.

-- Anonymous, March 04, 2001

ditto on the computer, frantically trying to E Mail as many people as possible to see where everyone was going to.......work.....not much official work was done that day that's for sure, and so as not to spoil the run, I've barely done a hands turn since!

-- Anonymous, March 04, 2001

Nearing the end of my tether at a job I hated intensely and which had sucked most of the life(and all sanity) out of me. The death of Communicata was NOT what I needed to start my morning with. Frantic emailing ensued after trying every possible way I could find to access the site.

THANK YOU DUNCAN for giving us this lifeboat!! :-)

-- Anonymous, March 04, 2001

AT home in Tokyo - worried about the future. Where would we all go?

Thanks for the home Duncan!

-- Anonymous, March 04, 2001

Showing my arse on The Strawberry board when some mackems were gloating about what a good thing it was that the plug was pulled since the site ran counter to everything the internet stood for. Obviously posting abusive rubbish anonymously and pretending to be other people was top of the designers' list, eh? These jokers obviously also believe that Subway trains are designed to be platforms for graffitti foremost and conveying people around a city by coincidence.

Got dreadfully angry and lost the ability to write coherently or argue lucidly and simply logged off. Felt like an amputation. Horrible.

-- Anonymous, March 05, 2001

At work, desperately trying to refresh/reload/logon or anything that might help. Horrible feeling. A million thanx to Dunx for the Greenspun lifeboat!

-- Anonymous, March 05, 2001

Softie You are an angry little b@gger at times,aren't you? Is this related in any way to the performance of the team you support? Just asking...

Dr Rufus T Firefly

-- Anonymous, March 05, 2001

sat at the same effin desk crappin' mesell at the thought of doing some real work

-- Anonymous, March 05, 2001

I was skiing and felt really gutted when I tried to log on and got the plug-pulled message. They say you don't appreciate things fully until they're gone... it was awful like I'd lost a friend

Salvation was at hand as Screacher sent me an email directing me here

-- Anonymous, March 05, 2001

Feeling lost and cut off from home in cyberspace and mourning the possible loss of an extended family of friends and the Lads.

Trying to get information out of Communicata, using every business like approach in the book and getting NOWHERE - only thing about them that p***ed me off. Still don't know where the archives are, although I have a horrible feeling they are no more. But...you never know.

Do you all remember the calls from the lifeboat that seemed to circle for ages, looking for survivors, shooting off flares, picking up mates that hauled themselves on board over the next few days.

Then the RELIEF when our Dunx came sailing over the horizon...will always be gratful and pleased. And here we still are, even (I would say), especially L.R., some more frequent than others) but still together and bigger than ever. G'awwd bless us !

-- Anonymous, March 05, 2001

I recall being utterly panic-stricken. We'd been through a preview of our ultimate fate only a few weeks previously when they had threatened to pull the plug at 5pm on the Friday evening, and right up until almost the last second we didn't know what would happen.

Several contributors like Rik were frantically trying to set up an alternate 'home', while Macbeth was trying to pull some strings with Communicata to get a reprieve.

I remember logging on at something like 7pm full of foreboding, not knowing whether the thing was still in existence. Lo & behold Macbeth had indeed engineered a reprieve, and initiated a survey to see how many contributors were prepared to pay an annual user fee to enable Communicata to maintain the site.

Just a couple of weeks later, without any warning, it was gone - this time for ever.

After our collective inability to come up with an alternative site just a couple of weeks earlier, I recall being staggered that Duncan was able to pull a bloody great elephant out of the hat and find quite a few of the 'regulars' were still active on his new site - even though it felt very stange at first.

Well done Duncan, and thanks a million.

-- Anonymous, March 06, 2001