Good news on snopes.com

[cyclonefence]

The fund-raising effort (https://www.gofundme.com/savesnopes) has exceeded its goal after only a few days.

[rickford66]

1. But how will we know it's true ?

[PoliticAverse]

2. You'll have to read the court transcripts, I guess. n/t

[Gothmog]

3. This is good news for Snopes

[Qutzupalotl]

4. If ever there was a time when their input was vital,

this is it.

[cyclonefence]

5. It grew from alt.urban-legend on usenet

in the 1990s. I joined that group around 1996, and snopes was such a natural outgrowth from the newsgroup. I don't remember David Mikkelson's posting all that often, but his wife Barbara was a mainstay. My favorite poster was Harry M.F. Teasley, who created Lara Croft.

I'm overjoyed that snopes apparently will survive, and you're right about its being more important than ever.

[PoliticAverse]

6. alt.folklore.urban

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/folklore-faq/part1/

Indexed by Google now...
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/alt.folklore.urban

[cyclonefence]

7. You're right

thanks