Peter van Aarle - IAFD

[John.h2]

Cut and pasted from rame.

It is with great sadness that I post this.

Peter van Aarle, curator of the Internet Adult Film Database (IAFD) and
co-founder of rec.arts.movies erotica (RAME), passed away on Sunday,
September 18, 2005, after suffering a heart attack at his home in The
Hague, Holland. He was 42. Details of a memorial service are not yet
known. Details will be posted at http://www.iafd.com as they become
known.

Peter started the IAFD "back in 1981/82 when I started watching porn
movies (back then my hometown still had a cinema which showed porn
movies, and only porn movies by the way, and that's where I went)."

The site came on-line in its present incarnation and its present address
in 1999, and he explained his goal for the site in an e-mail: "I
basically want the IAFD to be the definitive porn movie database on the
web. I've spent the past 18 years compiling this data, and I want all of
the credit "

The credit is all his.

The IAFD will continue, in his memory. Volunteers have begun assembling
updates. It will take us a little time to ramp up and try to fill the
void left by Peter, but we promise to do our best.

--
Internet Adult Film Database Staff

[mark shanon]

He did an incredible job.

[alec]

Very sad news. I must have used his work countless times - for personal purchases I mean, as well as cross checking for bgafd and egafd.

[newsbibi2]

Very sad news
Peter we'll never forget you.
Bye dear friend

[the colonel]

This is ill news indeed. I have used the iafd thousands of times for purchases and information.

the colonel