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Mike Perona - 21 May 2004 13:59 GMT

Hello fellow fossil freaks.

The old and outdated Fossil Hunter website has finally disappeared. I
had it on the server of an ISP I no longer use and they have
apparently caught up with me and yanked it down.

I have already had a couple e-mails requesting I send out my lists -
unfortunately, I no longer have complete lists. Well, actually, I do,
in a box of thousands of old floppy disks, but it has eluded me up
till now...

Anyway, if anyone out there has all those collecting site lists, a lot
of people would sure appreciate it if you could post them here (as an
attachment) or on your website. Most (if not all) of the sites had
been published elsewhere too, and if anyone can provide a link to any
of those sites, please post it to this newsgroup.

Thanks!

As a sidenote ... years ago there had been discussion of making a
sci.bio.paleontology.moderated group. The talk started as more and
more posts were originating from off-topic morons, crackpots, mental
cases and other kooks. It's plain to see that this problem has since
become an epidemic. Is anyone out there aware if a moderated
fossil/paleontology forum was ever created?

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Inyo - 21 May 2004 15:56 GMT

>Subject: Fossil Hunter website - gone!
>From: fossilgeek1@hotmail.com (Mike Perona)
>Message-ID: <5b5164b8.0405210459.5e90559c@posting.google.com>

>Hello fellow fossil freaks.
>
>The old and outdated Fossil Hunter website has finally disappeared. I
>had it on the server of an ISP I no longer use and they have
>apparently caught up with me and yanked it down.

You're lucky that they finally yanked the site. Recently, I found out that one
of the very early web space providers I had patronized several years ago, to
house my online version of a United States Geological Survey Professional
Paper, still had my site up and running, even after all of those years of
disuse and neglect--I had not accessed the server in literally years and
believed, with some expectation of confidence, that the server had severed my
site many moons ago, so to speark. Fortunately, I was able to find the password
for that web space provider, after which I promptly deracinated, uprooted--AKA,
removed--each and every file on the server. You just never know what's going to
hang around out there in cyberspace, going on and on and on in perpetuity
without your countenance.

On a related note, pertaining to fossil web sites in general, I have removed
from the Net all of my fossils-related web pages, except two--"Fossils In Death
Valley National Park" at http://mojave.topcities.com/dv/dvfossils.htm and
"Fossils At Redrock Canyon State Park, California" at
http://mojave.topcities.com/redrock/redrockfossils.html .

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Don Kenney - 23 May 2004 12:34 GMT

>>Subject: Fossil Hunter website - gone!
>>From: fossilgeek1@hotmail.com (Mike Perona)
[quoted text clipped - 23 lines]
>"Fossils At Redrock Canyon State Park, California" at
>http://mojave.topcities.com/redrock/redrockfossils.html .

Does that mean that all the wonderful stuff on Nevada fossils is gone?
Or are you just consolidating? Shame if they are gone permanently.
You did really nice work.

Why topcities if I may ask? I had a non-fossil related site there a
few years ago. First the access failed, then the site disappeared. I
think that happened to other as well. Are they back and functioning
again?

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Inyo - 23 May 2004 15:40 GMT

>Subject: Re: Fossil Hunter website - gone!
>From: Don Kenney donkenney@compuserve.x.com
>Message-ID: <hr21b0d861c68ea2s53e3v0f97c8tqqbuq@4ax.com>

>>On a related note, pertaining to fossil web sites in general, I have removed
>>from the Net all of my fossils-related web pages, except two--"Fossils In
>Death
>>Valley National Park" at http://mojave.topcities.com/dv/dvfossils.htm and
>>"Fossils At Redrock Canyon State Park, California" at
>>http://mojave.topcities.com/redrock/redrockfossils.html .

>Does that mean that all the wonderful stuff on Nevada fossils is gone?
>Or are you just consolidating? Shame if they are gone permanently.
>You did really nice work.

Yes, I've permanently deleted all of my fossils-related web pages, except the
two I listed. Of course, it is best "never to say never," so perhaps sometime
in the future I might place them back into cyberspace. Thanks much for the very
kind words regarding the sites.

>Why topcities if I may ask? I had a non-fossil related site there a
>few years ago. First the access failed, then the site disappeared. I
>think that happened to other as well. Are they back and functioning
>again?

I'm hooked on the huge 150 free megs of space they provide, first off, and I'm
willing to accept, live with, the merely adequate free bandwidth, at least for
the time being. In the past, I have indeed had some infuriating troubles with a
few of my topcities accounts (although most of my fossils pages, for the past
few months, were housed with Netscape, actually), but the two pages presently
housed with mojave.topcities.com (and a third with ojai.topcities.com) seem
stable enough to warrant sanguinary optimism -- for now, anyhow.

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