by Sheila Dean

This is a courtesy notice to online visitors for 511Campaign.org. It's time to allow the site to lapse into online history.

The campaign itself was formally retired May 2013, less than a month prior to the Edward Snowden leaks. Now it is time for the website to retire. Administrating the site became really difficult and at times, just impossible. Previous and current URL code and content is decaying. There’s no HTTPS for traffic protection.   

Gmail hosts would not work with me to resolve a lockout issue with my online web credentials.  I was not able to get into my Gmail account past Spring of 2012. Whomever e-mailed the Gmail address was funnelled into an inaccessible place. Hapless correspondents who sent mail using the site’s contact form were also not able to reach me. I can’t account for what went wrong, from an administrative or technical standpoint, because I really don’t know what precisely went wrong or how to fix it.  Earlier this year, I made a last effort to write Google to ask them to delete my mail account because I can’t access it. I haven’t gotten a response. I just know this unfortunate webmail embargo isn’t the first or last in Gmail consumer casualties. 

Vistaprint.com was over the site and design administration. It changed hands in 2012 to a Scandinavian company.  I wasn’t able to get very much help with code correction or browser issues at that time (2013). This means previous e-mail accounts managed via the website with a 511Campaign.org address were also inaccessible.

The browser issues seemed to improve over the years. Vistaprint improved its web service offerings. However, I couldn’t administrate the site at all past 2013, due to the limitations of poorly equipped globalized customer service. 

Yesterday I had a complete breakthrough. I was able to get problematic accounts reworked and accessed administration of my site for the first time since 2013. I managed somewhat of an information clean-up for the woefully neglected site.

From there, I successfully scheduled a shut-down date for January 2, 2017.

The site itself was not really functioning to its former glory.   It has really seen its best days. 

If you would like to remember it, there is a lovely snapshot of it taken throughout the years c/o the WayBack Machine. 

511 loves you back.  Thank you for your patronage.