Providence it seems, drew me to Traveller. In my last year of Grad School, I was challenged by a Professor to take my Geographic Theory on Space Warfare, and use the Russian-Soviet program as a case study, since they do Space Aggressively.

Along the way, Dad and I talked about Traveller a lot, and it reinvigorated my own love for Space and for this game. I admit my knowledge of the game is limited (but when I am back home, I have my father's 30 years of collected books and writings to look at). In many ways, Dad was a historian for Traveller, but I see myself almost as an archaeologist when I look through his stuff.

I enjoy how much the community has tolerated my own ramblings at times. In RL, I actually ramble for jobs, and do technical documentation to satisfy my rambling. HAHA

I have to say that I am constantly impressed by the Traveller community. I learn daily how large my dad's role was, but I am impressed by the civility and kindness many have shown me and my mom, in different formats. And since we're a gaming family, there's no way we would give up my dad's collection or hobby. Mom occasionally judges me (she's a Fantasy Nerd, not a space one), but I do not regret, and I have enjoyed the journey so far with you all.

Let me know in 6 months though if you still appreciate my rambling input. HAHA 

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 10:37 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
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Just want to say, & I'm sure the TML is with me on this, that your efforts are greatly appreciated & that it's great that you're here with us contributing to the discussions.

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On Thu, 4/7/16, Michael McKinney <archangel620@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] What happened to Donald McKinney's Traveller page?
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Thursday, April 7, 2016, 6:30 AM

 Hey
 folks,
 Don McKinney's
 son here. We still have all of dad's content and
 information for Traveller. There hasn't been an
 intentional purge. However, I am betting when my mother
 renewed the Go-Daddy account for Winter War, she did not
 keep authorization for the subdomain. I have inquired with
 her to know if she knows something.
 If it is just down because of
 access, I'll see if we can at least get a static version
 of it up. But it's important to remember that without
 dad being here, that page is UNLIKELY to update ever
 again.
 While I retain
 all of my father's Traveller books, works, and
 documents, the information on that page was shared with the
 circle around Marc Miller so that way he knew about
 it.
 In any case, if
 the page can be brought up, I will see if we can. But it may
 just have been an oversight issue because I didn't even
 know about the page myself until 2 months ago. It was one of
 the many things I learned as his son, in my father's
 passing, as I went through and organized
 stuff.
 I'll keep
 you updated if I find anything out.
 On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 6:00
 PM, B Kruger <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
 wrote:
 It looks like those pages were a subdomain of winterwar.org of which Don
 was the chairman.
 I suspect either the gaming group or Don's
 son has requested the pages be taken down as the DNS entries
 no longer exist.
 Brett.
 On 07/04/2016 7:41 AM,
  <tmr0195@comcast.net>
 wrote:
 Hello
 Bruce Johnson,

 Thank you for the reply and
 suggestion about using archive.org.
 The answer is no I have not tried
 since I just stumbled on to the problem.

 I know
 that about three weeks ago I could still access the site. I
 also have
 copies I downloaded and
 saved to my hard drive.

 I did check archive.org about the Merchant
 Prince Trader program mentioned
 here recently.

 Tom R

 From: "Bruce
 Johnson" <xxxxxx@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU>
 To: "TML" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Sent: Wednesday, April 6, 2016 2:31:31
 PM
 Subject: Re: [TML] What happened
 to Donald McKinney's Traveller page?

 Have you tried the
 WayBack Machine at the Internet Archive?

 <https://archive.org/web/>


 I found
 captures of his site there back in 2012 that resulted in
 those PDF’s.

 This is a wonderful service.

 > On Apr 6,
 2016, at 1:56 PM, tmr0195@comcast.net
 wrote:
 >
 > Hello
 all,
 >  
 > I was
 checking the MgT Traveller Errata forum with this link http://dmckinne.winterwar.org/pdfs/ConsolidatedTravellerErrata.pdf
 got the message that
 >  
 > This page can't be displayed
 > Make sure the web address http://dmckinne.winterwar.org
 is correct.
 >  
 >
 Next, I went to FFE's errata page clicking on the links
 there. The Consolidated CT Errata and Errata T4 General
 returned the same message
 >  
 > Then I tried Donald McKinney's home
 page and I got the same message.
 >  
 > Can anyone let me know where all the great
 stuff Donald McKinney had on the site went to and is there
 going to be a new place to find the good stuff?
 >  
 > Tom R
 >  
 > From: "Bruce
 Johnson" <xxxxxx@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU>
 > To: "TML" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 > Sent: Tuesday, April 5, 2016 10:43:06
 AM
 > Subject: Re: [TML] TML Archive
 available on the web
 >
 >
 > > On Apr 4, 2016,
 at 9:40 PM, Thomas Jones-Low <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
 wrote:
 > >
 > >
         I was asked are the TML archives, other than the
 ones at simplelist (which go back to April 2014) available
 on the web (i.e. publicly).
 >
 > I have an archive from ’87 to 2002-ish
 here <http://dbdev2.pharmacy.arizona.edu/archives/TML_Archives.html>
 At the very end of the list is a link to a zip file with all
 of them you can peruse locally. I’ll see if I can find a
 copy of them from the Travellercentral era.
 >
 > --
 > Bruce Johnson
 >
 University of Arizona
 > College of
 Pharmacy
 > Information Technology
 Group
 >
 >
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