A Passion for Pipes is no more

[tennsmoker]

Placing the P4P archives here at PM.com is just an outstanding offer by Kevin!
My old newspaper tossed most of its hard copy files a dozen or so years ago when it went to a digital "morgue" format. Morgue is generally referred to as a newspaper's library.
Now, my old newspaper says it is going to do away with even what hard copy it saved and is going to digitize the newspaper each day.
Good luck with that!
Glad to see that Kevin and others understand that we are losing the print world in a serious way. I hope books, newspapers, magazines and other print matter will continue to find a place in our reading culture. And I wonder what the internet digital world is having on the creativity it takes to write thought-provoking works? The Internet is just fabulous for research, but it takes down and dirty work to write the good stuff.
Passion for Pipes is a great example of what I'm talking about. Neill is an excellent writer and P4P deserves to be printed and archived. Thanks, Kevin!
Okay. I'm off my soap box.

 

[tslex]

I'd love to Neill's work saved here.
He thought and wrote about pipes and all things related in a way that transcended the pastime and implicated fundamental and important things. I enjoyed his site a lot, and i hope we will continue to hear form him, one way or another.

 

[kola]

Neill's a classy guy...good to see his information will be shucked over to this forum.

 

[Dutch Pipe Smoker]

I am hoping the site of Neill can be saved.. I can't imagine a pipe-smoking world without it. All the information, images etc. I can't imagine him just throwing away all he has worked for all those years. I mean, when I think of all the hours I spend in the making of my blog, I really don't want to throw that away. Ever! Luckily I have a free Wordpress site. The only money the blog costs me is to keep it ad-free. But when I decide to quit the blog will stay there for as long there are free Wordpress sites. Only with ads..
And Kevin: :clap:

 

[deathmetal]

My advice:
Set up a 302 redirect to the new site
And listen to more Pestilence, Asphyx, Gorefest and Sammath, of course!

 

[halfy]

Does someone know what happened to Nick of qualitybriar?

 

[pylorns]

How did I guess?! Lol.

 

[Dutch Pipe Smoker]

And listen to more Pestilence, Asphyx, Gorefest and Sammath, of course!

*Roars*

 

[georged]

Does someone know what happened to Nick of qualitybriar?

It was a convergence of family business matters that needed attending to and Nick encountering a number of PipeWorld frustrations. In short, his priorities shifted.
A big loss to the hobby, imo. Nick was/is always good for his word and consistently went above and beyond for his customers.

 

[ssjones]

This is great news. I have Neill's "Comoy's Blue Riband" book, it is excellent.

 

[carver]

Any news on the book or the restoration of the content of this website ?

 

[sablebrush52]

The only development I've spotted is not a positive one. His site can no longer be accessed from versions archived on the Wayback Machine. I had been able to pull off some articles shortly after the announcement of his site closure. But recently I was no longer able to access the archives and was informed by its administrators that those archives had been sealed by request, which I assume to come from Neill.
I'm sure that something is afoot, but for now that site is history.

 

[carver]

I had been able to pull off some articles shortly after the announcement of his site closure.

Would you have pulled anything about Author Pipes, by any chance ?

 

[dottiewarden]

Sounds to me like this is all part of the book in the making.
I hope I'm right.
And I hope everything works out for Neill.

 

[carver]

why making things unavailable ? simply because there is a book is the works ? doesn't seem so to me

 

[mso489]

sablebrush, I heartily agree that there are vast fields of material on internet that desperately need to be deleted, certainly "most" of it, whatever that means. But the option to retrieve material is central to having a viable and authentic history. One small example from the Ken Burns documentary on the Civil War (and that has good aspects and bad ones, be sure) I savor and take to heart the point that the officers with their fine, up-to-date fountain pens at the time wrote letters in ink that often faded almost completely over time. Whereas the poor farmer and working class enlisted men dying like flies on the battlefields mostly wrote their letters and diaries in pencil, which if the paper holds up, remains perfectly legible. Speaking of the durability of various platforms. Of course, everything we post on Forums will be forever maintained and treasured in closely maintained servers and the cloud. We'll all be remembered endlessly into the future as sages of the briar.

 

[dottiewarden]

why making things unavailable ? simply because there is a book is the works ? doesn't seem so to me

I would say it depends who the publisher is, but frankly I'm simply speculating.

 

[dottiewarden]

I heartily agree that there are vast fields of material on internet that desperately need to be deleted, certainly "most" of it, whatever that means.

Virtual space junk cluttering up interspace!

 

[philobeddoe]

Yes, Neill was hinting about a Passion For Pipes book for several years, I suppose sealing his archives is simply protecting the material of his hopefully upcoming book. This is actually good news. Why buy the cow, when you can get the milk for free?

 

[bryguysc]

You might be able to find archives here.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/apassionforpipes.com

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