Here's the big shocking news: ERR is not being updated, and probably never will be again. I know, big surprise.

I won't remove the pages, not as long as Paltiel and I can pay our hosting fees. I see a few hits come in a month; that's enough for me. It's merely time for me to admit that I have not been doing anything on the site for years, an embarrassingly long time, longer than many people have had email- and that it's time to pronounce it dead. Time to stop clinging to false hope that I'll get the gargantuan necessary updates done.

I was reminded that it is well past time for this closure by an outside event. In a fan circle completely unrelated (not stressable enough) to RR that I'm in, the admin of a very popular forum suddenly up and decided that he hated the world, ripping down his site, destroying the fanworks and research that his users had created, and telling us all to have sex with ourselves [twice]. It occurred to me that this type of behaviour irritates the bloody hell out of me. It did also, however, remind me that ERR has been hanging in limbo. I haven't answered email related to it for years- I'm sorry, it's nothing personal, I'm swamped and terribly disorganized. I feel it is my obligation, as the owner of a once-important resource, to let it go and reiterate that the public is welcome to make use of it, if it's still useful. But then, I'm rather an "information yearns to be free" nut in that fashion. ^_^;

So again, this is just your average, normal attack of RL, with a very very slight decrease in interest. I'll still lurk the Cafe from time to time. I have no qualms with any of you; I think we have one of the tightest and most caring fan communities around, and I wish you all continued luck in your endeavors.

Oh, and if you're an artist who draws Gadget, please send some masterpieces in the direction of my erstwhile spouse ?


Candy (Courtnier) Goldstein