I think I have grabed (using special software) this site in its whole. (depending on how deep the software went) & can preserve it on a server that is STRICTLY read only (if ANYONE ELSE can simply set up the HTML/CSS portion as I don't know that well enough) on hardware & internet here. as a kinda backup if anyone is interested! I mean I hardly use ALL of my available bandwidth most of the time I only have it this high in order to do spurt massive downloads of Operating systems (mostly Linux variants) as I am trying to teach myself Linux setup, security, & maintenance as well as clustering & cloud management (cant afford the classes at the moment or I would have made an offer on the water color! (Please pardon the spelling & grammar nightmare of today's messages it took me this long to just get to the point where I thought I could even make a public statement & how to word even the simplest portion of it. As I am doing it through tears & sobs I tend to
have a very hard time with the death of people I feel I have gotten to know & I am looking at kidney failure as well & being on Social Security I am NOT looking at getting a replacement but rather JUST dialysis until my untimely death which could be any time in the next year in all likelihood.)
Larry Barron
Certified Network Support Technician (trying to stay current with his other passion) and Nutcase...
& Yes I have the papers to prove BOTH!
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> From: "inkwell_01_at_yahoo.com [SkunkworksAMA]" <SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com>
>To: SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com
>Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2014 2:49 AM
>Subject: [SkunkworksAMA] Re: Future of Skunkworks AMA Group and artwork
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>Scrapper, Thylacine created the site and was the owner. He probably still
>is, but Thylacine disappeared a long time ago and gave up coming to
>the site. (Rumor has it, doubtfully, that a UFO beamed him up.)
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>How much control Thylacine gave Jim over the site is unknown to me.
>He might have given Jim ownership and all passwords and controls. Jim
>could change how the site looked so it seems Jim had the passwords
>to control the site. If this is the case, maybe Jim's family has those
>passwords for ownership control written down somewhere.
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>I strongly lean to leaving the site as is, with maybe the exception
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>that the current folders be set to read-only and that new folders be
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>created for fans who want to upload artwork of the SAMA characters.
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>A new mod would be helpful so posts don't take forever to get posted.
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>(I know real life has a tendency to mess things up like overseeing a
>website for a single mod.)
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>A second mod is needed. The only other alternative is to remove mod approval...but that would expose the site to spam. At one time the
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>site didn't need a mod to post anything.
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>Group can hammer out what it thinks needs to be done to preserve Jim's creations.
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>Scrapper wrote:
>"...tell us what James Michael Hardiman did for you..."
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>Heh. James created very entertaining worlds with a lot of entertaining characters. The entertainment worked on many levels. It could be subtle.
>It could be in your face. It could make you laugh. It could make you
>cringe - a lot. (James' antics were sometimes entertaining as well. He
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>knew how to make waves.)
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>James was a cartoonist and he wielded his media rather well for any
>purpose he wanted. James produced some pretty good artwork, funny
>stories, and some characters you wanted to meet in real life.
>(Lori, Natasha, Onyx in real life. Let me think about that.)
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>Furry artist. James was one of the originals with his own style. He helped
>move the "funny animal" concept from the '70s and '80s into the '90s ideals.
>Not planned, just timed out that way.
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>It was pretty good all around.
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>I would have loved to have seen some of his commercial work. James
>loved to draw buildings...and cars...and motorbikes...and weapons...andddd...
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>Just remember. Every time you see the Trio, or any of his drawings, you
>are seeing different aspects of James' personality.
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>James M. Hardiman had talent and he will be missed.
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Received on Mon Sep 15 2014 - 02:51:44 CDT