Toronto Furry
From WikiFur, the furry encyclopedia.
Toronto Furry, abbreviated to TorFur, is an association of furries living in the area around Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
It is one of the larger regional furry communities with over 400 estimated active members, and it is serviced by a number of loosely-affiliated services.
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[edit] Resources
[edit] Mailing List
The Toronto Furry Mailing List (usually referred to as just TorFur) is the longest running resource for the Toronto Furry community. It was started by Silfur near the beginning of 1997. It is currently hosted on catsden.net and administrated by Potoroo and has nearly 250 subscribers.
The mailing list also has two sister lists for the announcement of events and debates (torfur-events and torfur-debates respectively).
[edit] Websites
The toronto-furry website, furry.ca, was originally started by Silfur around 1998 and later maintained by Benjamin, until late 2005 when it was closed. It was re-opened by Dan Skunk in May 2006, hosted on furnation. It includes the largest directory of Ontario furries (over 400), a calendar with local events all over Ontario and a scrapbook with photos dating back to 2000.
Torfur.Com was acquired by Bad Karma Networks on January 15th 2007. No longer "Under Construction" and designed to augment existing facilities, the site features a discussion forum, image gallery, events guide, members directory and even offers free torfur.com e-mail accounts and webmail access to locals.
[edit] Chat
Several IRC channels linked to the Toronto Furry community exist on FurNet, the two primary of which are #torfur and #toronto-furry. A brief narrative history of the main channels is as follows.
#torfur was registered by Dan Skunk on April 1st, 2005 to compliment the torfur mailing list by adding the ability to share real time messages with other members of the Toronto furry community.
Dan Skunk ceded control of #torfur to darqchild, the current owner of #torfur, around November 2005.
#torfur began to split up around July 2006 over personal disputes between users and moderators.
#toronto_furry was registered by bobby near the end of September, 2006 to provide an unmoderated alternative to #torfur.
#toronto-furry was registered by Dan Skunk on October 2nd, 2006 to provide an alternative that was both more moderated than #toronto_furry but less moderated than #torfur.
#nsftorfur was registered on October 22nd 2006 to provide a place for users of #torfur to discuss mature topics.
#toronto_furry and #toronto-furry later merged due to lack of activity on #toronto_furry.
Dan Skunk ceded control of #toronto-furry to Scani on April 1st 2008.
