What's wrong with cutter and tailor? It's full of spam. And a few minutes ago my computer broke down because of some network that wanted to enter my computer!!
It's begininning to become a dangerous place.
Without Sators interest it can't go much further. And the Photobucket bastardry is just making it worse. Oh, and it isn't secure.
Well thats what this site was supposed to guard against.
Poor Schneidergott, he is left to remove the spam and the spamming members. but he is in his 90's.
I would welcome Sator's interest or even take it over from him, but he seems to have disappeared.
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Spam is an endless disease, if a forum even looks like its not being run properly it will get flooded with trash. I have to keep an eye on my programming forum on a regular basis so it easy to ensure this one does not attract garbage either.
pfaff260,
Just make sure the firewall in your computer's OS is working properly and don't click on anything that even vaguely looks suspicious.
It is a sad news! All the treasure of information and the photo illustrations are damaged, especially those that :(you guys put so much effort to translate them. :(
I think almost everything I have posted has been copied to this forum Mysewingpleasure, and I have largely repaired or replaced the ones on the other. I am not the only one to have made contributions, however, I do wish Sator would return and do some care.
Hutch, is there any way to make this a secure site?
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I do not think that Schneidergott is in the 90's, Schneiderfrei. I would think he is between 30 - 45. :-) He moved to Scotland for a new working place maybe 3 years ago.
Posaune
Goodness, I didn't think of that posaune. He seems to have such an intimate knowledge of the older terms.
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> Hutch, is there any way to make this a secure site?
This site is secured and I keep an eye on it multiple times daily. As far as C&T, only the webmaster can fix its problems.
Thanks Hutch for giving us this safe place.
Dear Schneiderfrei, and everyone in this subject, I know that you guys are on guard of CNT. You guys are doing an amazing contribution to the ones who are pursuing tailor sewing, which "the model teaching in the sewing schools" can only do less than half of the work. There are tons of books and videos out there, however, I still feel missing something - the essence of the hand-sewing-love. I do not know how exactly express because English is not my mother language. I love the way I learned the workmanship and hand-sewing that require a lot of love, patience. Sewing is an art, not a commercial product only for making money. I do believe that you guys who keep these sites running are doing it out of your love of sewing and the passion of keeping this "art" alive and keep the traditional tailoring fresh to the ones come after you in next, next generations.
It is sad to see the sites are running unusually slow and quiet, I have been coming back all the time, even I am very busy with my son's sewing projects. I have the deep affection and connection with these two sites, I have just successfully signed up as a member over CNT a few months ago. Right after the sign-up, I found all the photos are blurry and could not be read. and now, it is sad to see that it is not secure any more for us to browse over there. I am a bit scared to pop over there when you posted this message here.
:)
Hi all,
I had some nasty mails as well lately, even involving my login... The best solution is to keep your browser, your operating system and your anti-virus up to date... Best remedy of all; get some free e-mail acount (like g-mail or so) that you only ever use specifically for this forum. Never use the same password for anything else than this forum! Never ever (!) click on or open any other mails than the ones from other users of the forum and clearly under their names. Any "special offers", threats and the like, toss them without ever opening them, especially the attachments...
Cheers, Hendrick
This is basically good advice, with email, only ever open stuff that you know where and who it comes from and even then be careful. If it is someone you know who sends data as a ZIP file, you are reasonably safe as long as you know them but never ever open something that you do not know where it comes from and DON'T click on links inside unknown emails. You need to set up your email client to NOT RUN anything automatically.
I personally use a Google clone called "Slimjet" which turns off the Google data mining and for email I use an up to date version of Thunderbird that automatically does not run attachments and as usual if you don't understand or know what something is, DON'T RUN IT !!!!
I know that this question gets old, but does anybody know whats going on with the CaT Forum? Is it gone for good now?
Petruchio, Who knows. We are all sad to see it disappear. It has comeback on before, but with the huge assault of spam, I would not be surprised if Schneidergott spat the dummy. I wish Sator had come back and fixed it up. But that did not happen.
So, here we are in this site. It's not as flashy as the old one but it holds a lot of knowledge, and I for one have saved a considerable amount from the old forum and will try to repost anything that people want to see, if I have it.
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Schneidergott is not 90 even though his Knowledge is vast ;D we work together and this caused great hilarity in the workshop.
Also he is a moderator on the C&T forum and has not spat his dummy out, this must be down to Sator.
Hopefully he will sort it but if not we are lucky to have this forum.
I am very relieved to hear all you have to say.
And, I hope, equally amused.
It was a great mental exercise to imagine him with such venerable wisdom. :)
Posaune already pointed this out, also a twitter account (I think) Schneidergott 64 gave the game away.
I would have spat the dummy, all that dreadful spam.
Thank you for your comments Jeff.
I must say I am a bit disappointed I was wrong ;).
I am certain he would be welcomed to contribute to this forum by everyone involved.
This forum was never, at all, intended as a rival to the other, more of a life raft. I think Hutch would agree.
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Hey y'all. The wayback machine has much of C&T captured, but not all, and likewise much that preceded the photobucket fiasco for image clarity. I've been pulling together all the pages I saved to separate isolated drives and was going to mention the forum difficulty to suggest we may want to pool resources and create a legacy file. I even learned something new today from these files and some were copies 3 years ago. Gold dust is too precious to let blow away. Best rgds.
Hi all. I had visited C&T some months ago and it was okay for me, but now seems to have completely vanished. Not just a 404 or other downtime error, but as if the domain is kaputt.
Sator has been really slapdash with this. He completely failed to give administrator rights to Schneidergott, which would have assisted him in fixing things like the login problems and other things needing admin rights. He's left it down for months before coming to find it down and getting it up whilst the members waited like idiots. If, as appears to be the case, he has lost interest the best thing would have been to at least give that access to someone who hasn't lost interest!
There were other members whose status had changed, who moved over to being professionals, but were left as 'umsies' or generally locked out of the professional fora, so its no wonder posting dwindled. That initial approach, though I understood its intention in keeping things high quality, just constricted the site.
Like Steelmillal I still have a lot of the stuff from there saved up on disks and other computers. What the wayback machine has is most of the best stuff.
May I suggest using archive.org's WayBack Machine? It's not as comfortable as directly using website, but it might help when some information seems not to be anywhere on the internet.
On archive.org (http://archive.org) website is, above standard search, function to search among "imprints" of the internet's past. Enter cutterandtailor.com and it should offer you choice of dates in the past when forum's image was captured.
I didn't test it thoughtfully, but when I opened it, it worked - for example (The Trouser and Waistcoat forum -> Fitting Trousers; as looked on 23 jul 2017):
https://web.archive.org/web/20170723131135/http://www.cutterandtailor.com/forum/index.php?s=fa4b41a0980ca2495a137553e563d36d&showtopic=403 (https://web.archive.org/web/20170723131135/http://www.cutterandtailor.com/forum/index.php?s=fa4b41a0980ca2495a137553e563d36d&showtopic=403)
I am sorry, I apparently read only first page of this topic. Yes, WayBack Machine was already mentioned. Still better than stitch a sleeve backward, I guess...
It is unfortunate to see it go but it has been allowed to collapse by neglect. I have to keep track of my programming forum so its easy to keep an eye on what happens here, the usual things that an admin does, sweep the floors, put the trash out and retire spammers so they can make a pest of themselves elsewhere.
And we thank you for that Hutch!
Hutch, I am sending a truck of roses to you, to show you how much we appreciate your contribution and dedication behind the scene. It is heartbreaking to see the old site disappeared, most dreadful thing is this time, it will be gone forever.
(footnote: here in BC, there is a column in my local district paper, "Roses and Rotten Tomatoes", where the people in the local community can send their appreciation or complaints.)
Hutch, if you are my community neighbor, I would post it to this column, so everyone will honor your good deeds too.......
I am serious, with tons of roses.
I read the post you post the other day. I assume it is because you are a bachelor that you can put your whole heart to dedicate to this website. You are a bachelor for a reason!
QuoteYou are a bachelor for a reason!
No-one would put up with that collection of giant shears and machines. ;D
A common remark from my ex-wife: "So you've got another machine? What does this one do then?"
I had a quick look at the whois database and the domain name was renewed in 2019 for 3 years. This is probably an automated renewal but it at least means that no-one can get the domain and use it for another purpose.
> I assume it is because you are a bachelor
Its even worse than that, I waited for a girlfriend until I was 50 years of age who was still running around the world so I gave up, turned into an industrial robot and never looked back. Humour aside, the one thing that you miss is the kids but I live in an old inner city area and have seen generations of kids grow up and have great neighbours.
Henry has the right idea but all of the big snippers live in a small chest of drawers, its the house full of computers, tools, sewing machines and in my workshop down stairs a tiny precision lathe, drill press, linisher, bench grinders and my workbench with a mountain of tools and toys within reach.
Hutch, most wise men always give advice, something like this,
" If it is yours, it will come your way...."
" Let go, let God..."
When you decide to slow down, you'll see the opportunities around the town...
Well, never be too busy to look around like you look for giant shears and old-fashion-machines...
There are much surprise down the road than in computer....
I never doubt what lies ahead, I am looking forward to getting ready to cope with whatever comes my way.
It is an old dump sewing-mom's advice. Tons of roses to you.