itsend Posted June 20, 2010 Share Posted June 20, 2010 Message on board To the Fox Files' Registered Users After running this web site now for nearly 13 years I have decided to terminate this service - at least in its current form. There is more than one reason to my decision with the most important being an exacerbating lack of time left for editing pics and the website itself as well as the ever increasing effort of lawyers and stock photo agencies to rip off webmasters for copyright infringements. Please bear with me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 20, 2010 Share Posted June 20, 2010 You know you're welcome here OFF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samurman Posted June 20, 2010 Share Posted June 20, 2010 Here I am, in the heat of a 30 degree Celsius summer night, and the news of the Fox Files closing hit me so hard I am shivering... So sad, such a loss... Before youtube, flickr, imageshack, just jared, style.com, or sagafurs.com, before ebay, yahoo-msn messenger, email groups... before all of that, we had geocities. We had furamo. We had sheeny. We had mikhail's great directory. And of course, we had the Fox Files. This is truly the end of the "Golden Age of Furs" on the web. Now I feel how the end of the Dynasty era must have felt in late 80s. There will be something new in place, but it will never be the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auzmink Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 I have sent MMF my own personal thanks for his wonderfur contribution to the online fur community, and he deserves significant recognition by all of us for his amazing pioneering site. I used to have telephone modem dial in access years ago, but it was still worth 10 minutes to download 1 picture. In typing this I considered adding an " title="Applause" /> (icon) to this line, MMF is a Fur icon. Auzmink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKcoyote Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 Would this be an appropriate icon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ew19975 Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 It's sad to see MMF's site fade into the aether, but if the time has come that MMF has run out of time to work on editing the pictures to his standards (plus lawyers and others interfering?); then so it shall be. I've been following it for many years (through several hosts, IIRC.), and I'll miss his contributions our little corner of the web. I guess now I'll have to kick myself for not taking the time to keep up with some of the other sections (model profiles, pic series, etc) outside of the weekly big pic updates. I wish MadManFox all the best with whatever path he decides to follow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Fox Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 I hope that absolutely everyone here will send a letter of Thanks to Mad Man! His contributions to this area have been huge. Folks like He, Mikhail, Fur Twins, Dragon, Our own founder FrBrGr, Mr B., Cookie. (Man, I should not have started a list as I just cannot include everyone.) These folks have done so much that it is just impossible to even begin to sum up their work. Their dedication. Their love for the topic and their sites. And they did it so that folks like us could come along and see it. PLEASE! Send Mad Man a quick note of thanks for all that he has done. If you never post a message here or anywhere else. You owe him that much for his work on the net. For the endless hours of work he did just for YOU! I only wish now that I had done that when some other sites went off the air. Here is a link to his email... http://thefoxfiles.madmanfox.net/ Thank You Mad Man Fox! I only wish I could have spent more time on your site! White Fox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Fox Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 P.S. History on internet fur sites is available in our wiki here... http://vdsden.thefurden.com/fdwiki/?n=FurInfo.TimeLine2 If anyone knows of information missing from this page, please contact us. We would love to have more information there. W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleEd Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 This is one of the saddest moments in my life, because I love Fox Files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Fox Posted June 28, 2010 Share Posted June 28, 2010 Has anyone had a reply back from him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ew19975 Posted June 28, 2010 Share Posted June 28, 2010 None here...sent a message of thanks back on Tuesday. May be trying to make a clean break with his site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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