People of like minds could form an email group too @Yvonne Smith. I still have a small one going from the days of the Backwoods Home forum, from which I migrated here at @Ken Anderson's urging.
I will send you my Email @Yvonne Smith If it came to the worst ….the crafty forum im on is free ( I believe ) it’s pro boards run site never seems to have any issues The crafty forum was set up by inexperienced members of the “old” ……crafty site …. after it was closed due to declining heath of the original owner . Let’s hope everything’s ok with Ken and Michele ……he’s looked after us very well …and I sincerely thank him.
Two of his followers appear to be perhaps a brother and sister but there's no way to contact them and on his followers no one makes posts or doesn't show any posts or anything
I hope we find out something soon and that there's a logical explanation for his and Michelle's disappearance But this instant alone shows that if we are to keep the form together in the event of any type of catastrophe then we need to share our emails or whatever with a few people so that you can be contacted if we can all meet somewhere else. Yvonne knows how to get a hold of me Beth knows how to get a hold of me.
One thing folks could do is send an individual PM (Conversations) to each person they'd like to share their email with. Some folks might feel uncomfortable putting their address out there for everyone to access, and at a minimum I don't want my email address on a publicly-accessible forum. I certainly have no problem with folks here, but it's a big WWW out there, and visitors can browse unrestricted. We've all posted a lot of personal info here. That's not to say you can't start such a group. But this is an alternative to those of us (like me) who err on the side of caution. (In real life, I did Contracts. I see risk everywhere. I never saw a party that I couldn't poop.)
I had thought of that John and it can still be done without using your main email address. One could use an alternate email address.
I tried calling the recovery center (P.I.R.2Peer) that Michelle launched, but got an answering machine. So I looked them up online and sent an email asking if they knew if anything was going on with Ken & Michelle. At least that's someone who's local and who has phone numbers. Here's their website: link edit to add: the email kicked back. The mailbox is full. The website says they are open M-F 9-5. I may call tomorrow and leave a message (the answering machine was generic, with no organization name given.)
Here is a link to the recovery center's page on a Millinocket community website. There's contact info there for the Millinocket community organization, but we're heading into the weekend in between 2 holidays. I just thought I'd pass it on. Here is the recovery center's Facebook page. I cannot even browse it without having a FB account.
Thanks, John ! I went to the FB page and sent them a message asking if they will contact Ken and Michelle and let us know if they are okay. We have messaged just about every way that we can. If we do not hear something in another day, I will ask the police to check. I just hate to do that.
I was thinking that it's such a small community and since Michelle has that prominent role in it, that (a) if something untoward has happened, the police will already know, or (b) if things are fine, a wellness visit will be a low-key thing.
I realize the dangers @John Brunner but email is much safer than an open forum with access to the world at large. It would be most useful to keep in touch with people you would like to maintain contact with, especially if the forum goes away or crashes for a long period.
Anyone think we should announce on here his missing? This makes day eight and if you look at the response it's only coming from Roll Call very few of us are making comment on this. I can't help but feel somewhere out there someone else may know how to get a hold of them.
After trying 4-5 disconnected numbers, I finally found one this morning that would ring, and got a voicemail that said it was Ken Anderson. I left a message and asked him to either return the call or to let the forum know that he was okay, or for Michelle to do so if he cannot. No one has seen any of the messages I left on facebook messenger. Since we have his home address, we can still ask the police to check, but now that I have left a message that I think someone might actually get, I want to wait before I contact authorities. I have searched through millinocket news online, and didn’t see anything that looked like accidents there, so I am thinking that maybe he is just home and sick.
Thanks for all that work, Yvonne. I was gonna call the local police this morning and get their advice. I wish I had thought of calling the recovery center before late on a Friday night.