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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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10-17-2002, 07:00 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Bozrah, CT USA
Posts: 1,169
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Broadband Here I come
I finally have Broadband Access at home!! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] WOW. This is faster than work!
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10-17-2002, 07:41 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Florida Big Bend
Posts: 17,133
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Re: Broadband Here I come
Ted isn't it great? It's so soooo much less frustrating getting into photo or clipart-laden threads!
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10-17-2002, 07:53 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Richardson, TX
Concierge Level: 3
Posts: 3,357
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Re: Broadband Here I come
OOOOH another broadband convert. Isn't it great not to sit and wait for things to download! I'm on fiber optics, so I am on line all the time. Requires good firewalls.
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10-17-2002, 08:09 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Poinciana, Florida
Posts: 9,422
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Re: Broadband Here I come
We switched over 2 years ago and never looked back. Home is faster than our office too. [img]graemlins/puter.gif[/img]
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10-17-2002, 10:39 PM
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Mrs. Jack Sparrow
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Aboard the Black Pearl
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 21,228
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Re: Broadband Here I come
Ummmm, could you all explain broadband,Like what is it and how much it cost? [img]graemlins/blush.gif[/img]
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10-17-2002, 10:41 PM
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Wannabe Snowbird
Join Date: May 2002
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 34,137
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Re: Broadband Here I come
I can't tell you how much it costs Marcie, since I'm in a different country with different rules and regulations, etc. But we have broadband internet access through our cable company. It's pretty fast.
[ 10-17-2002, 10:42 PM: Message edited by: GoofyMom ]
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10-17-2002, 11:07 PM
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Mrs. Jack Sparrow
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Aboard the Black Pearl
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 21,228
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Re: Broadband Here I come
Thanks Donna.
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10-17-2002, 11:14 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Bozrah, CT USA
Posts: 1,169
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Re: Broadband Here I come
Yeah Donna it's like this really cool instant access to pages dohickey. [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] I have been busy surfing around all evening. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
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10-18-2002, 05:50 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Whitefield, NH
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 13,599
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Re: Broadband Here I come
You are so lucky! I can't wait until they offer broadband up here in the sticks - I need to free up my phone line!
DH has a satellite connection at work - great for downloads, but it is just too pricey to use here at home - $200-300 dollars for the dish, then $80/mo for the service! I will stick with my old reliable service for less than $20/mo!
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10-18-2002, 07:13 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 7,478
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Re: Broadband Here I come
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Originally posted by LilMarcieMouse:
Ummmm, could you all explain broadband,Like what is it and how much it cost? [img]graemlins/blush.gif[/img]
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<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">Marcie, broadband is access to the internet through your cable tv line, rather than through your phone line. That way, your phone line isn't tied up when you are online. You can talk on the phone while you surf the net. And, it's much, much faster loading a webpage, pictures load in a fraction of a second, instead of waiting, sometimes for several minutes. It is very convenient. We've had it for over a year and have become spoiled by it. We pay around 45 dollars a month for it. Hope that helps!
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10-18-2002, 10:20 AM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Florida Big Bend
Posts: 17,133
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Re: Broadband Here I come
Wow we got the first three months for free and then it's $20. or $22./month down here!
Marcie, watch for ads on tv to get a "deal". That's what we did when we got ours this summer. If you want more info I'll look around for the stuff they gave us if you'd like.
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10-18-2002, 10:54 AM
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Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Clio, MI, USA
Posts: 1,711
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Re: Broadband Here I come
It's funny you should post this.....I was just going to ask everyone's opinion on it. I really was thinking about it yesterday. They are offering a special through our cable company, 19.99 for the first three months. After that it will be $15 dollars more a month than I am paying now. So what do you think, should I go for it?
[ 10-18-2002, 10:56 AM: Message edited by: Snapple ]
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10-18-2002, 03:40 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Posts: 5,094
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Re: Broadband Here I come
Congrats Ted, isn't it the best?!
We got Earthlink DSL about a year ago and we just love it. It's $49.95 a month but since we were paying $21.95 a month for dial-up, plus all the fees for the second phone line, it's really a wash. Our phone bill has dropped from over $60 a month to barely $30, can't complain about that [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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10-18-2002, 04:42 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Florida Big Bend
Posts: 17,133
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Re: Broadband Here I come
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So what do you think, should I go for it?
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<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">[img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] Oh YES! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] |
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10-18-2002, 10:43 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: East Haven, CT, USA
Posts: 3,406
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Re: Broadband Here I come
When we bought our computer , we did the 3 year rebate thing with Compuserve. And the 3 years is up in Jan!! [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] We're going to go Broadband too, DH says I tie up the phone lines way too much [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
Guess I should start shopping for deals!
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