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What happened to John Stimpson's "Survivor Files"??
Are they just temporarily down of did he pull them from public access?
John J. Stimson, II
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Mon Dec 26, 2016 18:33
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For those of you who have not seen my September 2016 message about the change in support of this forum I offer the following.

This forum was started November 23,2004 and in the nearly 12 years since has accumulated over 33,400 posts. A year or so ago the company I lease the forum service from deleted the first 7,001 posts and that took out all the posts from November 23, 2004 through September 8 2008 or almost 8 years. That was very disappointing as that represented a lot of my time and some money to rent the forum service.
I think I have enjoyed about all I can enjoy maintaining this forum and I plan to not renew the forum service when I comes due again in December 17th. That will result in advertising appearing on the forum and eventually all but the last 2000 or so posts to be deleted.

The usage of the forum has diminished over the past couple of years to about half of what it once was once it became established. I am getting less useable data that advances my research and getting that data was the reason for the forum in the first place. I will not be providing research for guns after December 17th unless your are a friend that I already know or the gun properly described appears to be one that might benefit my research. I suspect that will be very few guns that i do research.

Hopefully this will allow more research in the factory records as I begin to do the final draft of John Currie's book that I have been working on for a lot of years.
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