What ever happened to the TBOA site?

1967 seavoyager · Post by **1967 seavoyager** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 11:23 pm

I was curious what happened to them. I was a member for a couple years & have their burgee.

Stripermann2 · Post by **Stripermann2** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 8:06 am

Every once in a while, I'd get email notices from them. In the form of SPAM! Site went down hill, if it's even still up...

RWS · Post by **RWS** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 7:59 am

Attached is my 2007 reply from John Hunter, the Chairman of the Board of the now defunct TBOA and it's website.

I was hoping to obtain an archive copy of the website postings, as these would be a very valuable "library" over time, especially due to the fact that we have an orphaned brand.

Too bad, they didn't survive.
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From: John Hunter
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 8:38 AM
To:
Subject: Re: Trojan Website Savings

TBOA has been gone for over two years
and so has the web site. So, no nothing has been saved. If i can help in any way, let me know.

John
----- Original Message -----
From:
To: 'John Hunter'
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 3:42 PM
Subject: Trojan Website Savings

John,

Any chance that the postings to the website have survived or been archived anywhere?

Harris

prowlersfish · Post by **prowlersfish** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 11:02 am

The website is still up . the fourms still working , I check it once in a while . infact posted yesterday

I asume you were talk about the trojanboats owners club may not be the same thing

RWS · Post by **RWS** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 6:02 pm

The Trojan Boat Owners Club (still alive to some extent) is a different site than the old TBOA (Trojan Boat Owners of America) Rest in Peace.

Sadly, when these sites die off, there is no library or archive of all the valuable information posted by the members.

Perhaps we have a member who has the ability to save the data should one of these active sites go down.

It would be a great cure for our illness, Orphan Brand Syndrome.

RWS

ltbrett · Post by **ltbrett** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 8:34 pm

Old sites may not be lost--check the wayback machine:
http://www.archive.org/index.php
It tries to archive all websites.

Brett

RWS · Post by **RWS** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 8:51 pm

Brett,

It's THERE !

trojanboatowners.com

Now, the question is how do we save it and where do we save it to for the purposes of preserving it?

RWS

prowlersfish · Post by **prowlersfish** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 9:12 pm

I went to the site but at all I can get is the "cover pages" can't read the forums .

RWS · Post by **RWS** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 9:21 pm

same here, I saw the pages andposted here before closing the window.

Call it "PREMATURE HURRAH"

RWS

prowlersfish · Post by **prowlersfish** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 9:46 pm

Yea ,but maybe your on to something .