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2001
I created and launched the EdinPhoto web site in 2001.
The site has been hosted since its launch by FastHosts.
The guestbook has been provided since 2001 by Bravenet.
2004
By 2004, I was concerned that some of the guestbook
messages might be lost, because they were being held by Bravenet rather than by
myself.
So I arranged for all the messages in the guestbook to be
archived. Here are links to the pages that I archived them to:
2013
The guestbook received a lot of messages from 2001 to 2013.
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Year |
Guest Book |
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2001 |
36 messages |
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2002 |
102 messages |
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2003 |
169 messages |
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2004 |
116 messages |
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2005 |
248
messages + 104 replies |
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2006 |
222
messages + 98 replies
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2007 |
155
messages + 157 replies |
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2008 |
288
messages + 225 replies |
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2009 |
312
messages + 375 replies |
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2010 |
233
messages + 310 replies |
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2011 |
308
messages + 435 replies |
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2012 |
290
messages + 579 replies |
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2013 |
182
messages + 293 replies |
However, only a very small proportion all messages for the
web site were sent to the guestbook. Most messages during this period were
sent to me by email.
When a message was sent to me by email, I was able to
decide which part of the web site to add each message to As a result I
hope that the web site achieved a better structure, and that visitors would be
able to find messages on their chosen topics more easily.
In 2013, I began to encourage all contributors to send all
their messages to me by email. Thank you for your co-operation in
complying.
2019
The number of guestbook messages declined in 2014-18, and
many of those that were posted in the guestbook in this period turned out to be
spam. I removed all the spam messagesas soon as I found them in the
guestbook, but this involved me in a disproportionate amount of effort.
I decided, about a year ago, to end the guestbook at
its next renewal date - January 2019 - so I am expecting it to vanish
imminently. I've now archived all the 1,000 messages that I found in it.
Here is a link to where these archived messages can now be found,
Messages on the EdinPhoto web site are held in pages
grouped by subject but there is no matching structure to the way that the
archived messages are held.
However, it should be possible to search these archived
messages along with the remainder of the web site if you are looking for names
of any individual contributors or subjects.
Peter Stubbs, Edinburgh: 11 January 2019
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