Demise of greenspun.com

[sal_santamaura]

Steve, since greenspun.com will soon be history, have you and Phil discussed what will become of this bulletin board? Will it move as a separate forum under photo.net? Be subsumed by the MF digest at photo.net? If the latter, will these archives be incorporated into the Pentax 67 archive category there?

 

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Thanks for your efforts keeping this going as long as it has!

[g._bordner]

"Thanks for your efforts keeping this going as long as it has! "

 

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Let me offer a strong second for this statement from a regular reader

and infrequent poster who has found it very helpful at times. Thanks.

[steve_rasmussen]

I have just heard about the shut down today after returning from the

Grand Canyon. I have not heard from Phil G yet but I have heard talk

at other LUSENET photo forums that there is a plan to incorporate

these into Photo.net. I would hope that we could be placed along side

the MF Digest as a separate entity but that would depend on what our

present members think and also upon what Photo.net will let us do. I

must read more about this shut down before commenting further. Thanks

for the kind words. SR

[philg]

Hey, I'm not dead yet... But seriously the easiest thing to do with

photo forums is move them into photo.net. The site has a full-time

staff. For the rest of the greenspun.com stuff, I'm not pulling the

plug immediately. But I want to make sure that the services are

rebuilt in a way that is sustainable. I've already told Steve that

we can move his forum onto photo.net and redirect seamlessly from old

greenspun.com bookmarks.

[stephen_ratzlaff]

Thanks Philip. At least you guys are considering the end-user by not

just shutting down without a redirect.

 

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Will the other forums be the same. Large Format, Canon EOS, Camera,

etc.?

 

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SR

[steve_rasmussen]

Here is the URL link that Phil G. has suggested be used to transfer

our forum to Photo.net. This is a part of the communication between

the Webmaster at Photo.net and Phil.

 

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"Sure. This makes sense. We can link it from

http://www.photo.net/photo/pentax-67"

[sal_santamaura]

Steve, that's one of the Equipment Reviews pages (the one for P67

with a review by Hamish). Not a bad spot, but you'll need to discuss

with Phil how to best make clear the difference between this forum

and the Reader Comments already appearing under that review.

[patrick_drennon]

Steve/Phil,

 

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I check two forums everyday, this one and MF Digest. I find it

entertaining and useful. I have an unspoken appreciation of both

of your efoorts over the years in handling it in such a

professional manner. Sounds like the future will be no different,

again, my compliments. Just in case it makes a difference, I

prefer the seperation between the two. Most of the posts on this

forum are by fairly dedicated users, lots of helpful data. The MF

forum seems to attract more comparison posts and flame wars,

lots of fun and entertainment, just not as much truly useful data.

[steve_rasmussen]

Patrick, I tend to agree with you about the separation within

Photo.net. We would get lost if we were inside the MF Digest. We are a

unique forum that goes beyond just simple Q & A and so we need to be a

separate entity. Thanks for the compliments. SR

[jeff_nakayama]

yes, yes, you must keep the canon eos forum alive! i crave it! please

please please!!! keep hope alive. keep hope alive.