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As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
And a very special thank you to our Guides (moderators), past and present, who kept our forums a happy place to be. You are the glue that held everything together, and we are forever grateful to you. Thank you aliceinwdw, Caldercup, MrsM, WillCAD, Fortissimo, GingerJ, HiddenMickey, CRCrazy, Eeyoresmom, disneyknut, disneydani, Cam22, chezp, WDWfan, Luvsun, KMB733, rescuesk, OhToodles!, Colexis Mom, lfredsbo, HiddenMickey, DrDolphin, DopeyGirl, duck addict, Disneybine, PixieMichele, Sandra Bostwick, Eeyore Tattoo, DyanKJ130, Suzy Q'Disney, LilMarcieMouse, AllisonG, Belle*, Chrissi, Brant, DawnDenise, Crystalloubear, Disneymom9092, FanOfMickey, Goofy4Goofy, GoofyMom, Home4us123, iamgrumpy, ilovedisney247, Jennifer2003, Jenny Pooh, KrisLuvsDisney, Ladyt, Laughaholic88, LauraBelle Hime, Lilianna, LizardCop, Loobyoxlip, lukeandbrooksmom, marisag, michnash, MickeyMAC, OffKilter_Lynn, PamelaK, Poor_Eeyore, ripkensnana, RobDVC, SHEANA1226, Shell of the South, snoozin, Statelady01, Tara O'Hara, tigger22, Tink and Co., Tinkerbelz, WDWJAMBA, wdwlovers, Wendyismyname, whoSEZ, WildforWD, and WvuGrrrl. You made the magic.
We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.
That said, PassPorter is not going away. Most of the resources will remain online for as long as we can support them, and after that we will find ways to make whatever we can available. PassPorter means a great deal to us, and to many of you, and we will do our best to keep it alive in whatever way we can. Our server costs are high, and they'll need to come out of our pockets, so in the future you can expect some changes so we can bring those costs down.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!
If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!
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05-11-2006, 07:10 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: May 2003
Location: a mere few minutes from the Mouse! <3
Concierge Level: 2
Posts: 9,777
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Re: The Magic stopped to help..................
Ahhh, I love Disney! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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05-11-2006, 10:14 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: BURLESON TX (near Ft. Worth)
Posts: 5,589
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Re: The Magic stopped to help..................
What a great story, thanks for sharing it. BTW, what a great picture of your WD suite!
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05-13-2006, 10:09 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Wishing I was at WDW
Posts: 2,384
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Re: The Magic stopped to help..................
That's a great story!!!
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05-16-2006, 11:57 AM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Gilberts, IL
Concierge Level: 5
Posts: 772
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Re: The Magic stopped to help..................
That is great. I am glad they helped. More people should reach out that just shoes you the type of company Disney is. It is the best.
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05-16-2006, 12:20 PM
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Community Rank: Passenger 
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Southeast Pennsylvania
Posts: 38
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Re: The Magic stopped to help..................
Cool story!
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05-27-2006, 07:47 AM
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Community Rank: Tourist
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Northeast
Posts: 21
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Re: The Magic stopped to help..................
That is a good decision on the part of the captain of the "Magic" and I would not diminish it in any way. However, I thought it was international maritime law that a ship has to stop for another on in distress. Am I wrong? If that is true, I think it is commendable that Disney paid attention to the law, while so many others do not.
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05-29-2006, 10:20 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 2,357
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Re: The Magic stopped to help..................
The treaty says you have to stop if you hear the call. Not all ships monitor the radio very much, if at all. I've had several instances where repeated hails were either not heard or ignored and only measures such as flares got their attention. Most big ship captains (freighters and tankers) don't like small boats because they can perturb their schedules.
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05-30-2006, 01:43 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Ann Arbor, MI USA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 14,427
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Re: The Magic stopped to help..................
Years ago I had to study maritime radio rules and regs for an FCC license. Soon after, I was a guest on a pleasure boat sailing off New York's Coney Island on a beautiful, summer Sunday. The radio traffic was absolutely apalling. None of the regs were being observed, and nearly all the radio traffic was being generated by obviously drunken "sailors." If someone had been in legitimate trouble, I doubt anyone would have noticed. After that, I can certainly understand why the "pros" may be less than rigorous about monitoring radio traffic or attending to the needs of small craft. It doesn't make it right, especially since so many of the maritime radio rules were formulated right after the Titanic went down. I'm just glad that the Magic proves that all is not forgotten.
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05-31-2006, 04:44 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 2,357
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Re: The Magic stopped to help..................
Last year the first officer on the Elation told me that cruise lines monitor the emergency freqs pretty consistently. Something about the difference between a no-name freighter and a cruise ship passing up a boat in distress. We also talked about celestial navigation, as I was doing star shots at the time.
Blue water radio is a lot closer to what you were probably expecting. Listen in to SSB sometime.
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