# Is the teeming millions dead? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 21, 2006, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-teeming-millions-dead/381357 "2006-11-21T23:17:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![figure9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@figure9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/figure9)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-teeming-millions-dead/381357/1 "2006-11-21T23:17:25Z")
I have gone to the teeming millions web page (shown on Cecil’s site) and it has never changed. There are dead links, and no updates for years. Is this site dead. Why is there a link to it? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-teeming-millions-dead/381357/2 "2006-11-22T12:42:10Z")
We do not support or upgrade those pages; we have a link as a courtesy. You’ll need to talk to Opal about an update. She’s pretty busy these days so we should probably remove the link and be done with it. ---
**Author:** ![According\_to\_Pliny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@According\_to\_Pliny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/According_to_Pliny)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-teeming-millions-dead/381357/3 "2006-11-22T14:06:59Z")
I think a good plan might be to link to OpalCat’s regular site. Many SDMBers post there as well as here. And that is where many SDMBers come to ask if this site is up, etc. There’s also a chat room that comes in handy for such questions. [Fathom.org](http://Fathom.org) ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-teeming-millions-dead/381357/4 "2006-11-22T17:43:16Z")
I jumped in here, all eager to snipe at someone’s grammar (thread title). Now I’m unsatisfied. :mad: 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2006, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-teeming-millions-dead/381357/5 "2006-11-23T00:44:04Z")
The teeming millions was not **OpalCat** , 'twas **Eutychus** , and, yes, 'tis dead. I vaguely remember a poster a few months ago trying to get it going again, but that effort must have come to naught. ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2006, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-teeming-millions-dead/381357/6 "2006-11-23T01:04:40Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] The teeming millions was not **OpalCat** , 'twas **Eutychus** , and, yes, 'tis dead. I vaguely remember a poster a few months ago trying to get it going again, but that effort must have come to naught. [/QUOTE] You are thinking of the ezine Teemings. Here is the thread: [About the old e-zine, "teemings" - About This Message Board - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=363122) Opal designed and ran the Teeming Millions site (and still does, as far as I know), which hosted Teemings, although the Teemings link now says it is being moved to a new server. Apparently, it was moved here: [http://www.pursam.org/teemings/index.html](http://www.pursam.org/teemings/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2006, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-teeming-millions-dead/381357/7 "2006-11-23T02:25:51Z")
[QUOTE=Gfactor] You are thinking of the ezine Teemings. Here is the thread: [About the old e-zine, "teemings" - About This Message Board - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=363122) [/QUOTE] The link on the Straight Dope front page goes to the ezine. I assumed that is what the OP meant. _shrug_ Could be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2006, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-teeming-millions-dead/381357/8 "2006-11-23T03:19:36Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] The link on the Straight Dope front page goes to the ezine. I assumed that is what the OP meant. _shrug_ Could be wrong. [/QUOTE] See here: [http://www.straightdope.com/faq/index.html#faq](http://www.straightdope.com/faq/index.html#faq) ---
**Author:** ![According\_to\_Pliny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@According\_to\_Pliny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/According_to_Pliny)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2006, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-teeming-millions-dead/381357/9 "2006-11-23T18:21:09Z")
Thanks for that link. I finally tried the [Page O’ Funnies](http://fathom.org/teemingmillions/pofunnies.adp) and got a good laugh. There should be no rush to disable any of the links. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-teeming-millions-dead/381357/10 "2006-11-24T08:04:15Z")
It does say “Archives” right next to the _teemings_ description. I suppose that bit could be moved to the front of the description and bolded to make it more properly obvious, if I were to make a suggestion. ---
**Author:** ![According\_to\_Pliny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@According\_to\_Pliny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/According_to_Pliny)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-teeming-millions-dead/381357/11 "2006-11-24T18:05:09Z")
[QUOTE=According to Pliny] I think a good plan might be to link to OpalCat’s regular site. [/QUOTE] I retract this suggestion. I now realize that it is better to follow TubaDiva’s suggestion to just remove the link. No good can come from it.