"Randy Brukardt" <randy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> The recent article by Mr. Bill in the Circuit Cellar included a
reference
>> to www.AdaHome.com. This is an effectively dead site and it seems
>> that no one is able to get rid of it. Consequently, people are misled
>> into going there instead of to one of the sites that is kept current.
>> Does
>> anyone have any ideas about how to fix this? Has Magnus, the
>> original author, vanished or is he simply angry about something
>> regarding Ada to the point that he is using this as some kind of
>> revenge?
>
> I believe it is the latter. He's rebuffed multiple attempts to take over
> or
> even purchase the site from him. And he obviously is paying money to
keep
> the site up in its current form (probably not a lot, but surely more
than
> nothing). He rarely even responds to messages from Ada people.
Sounds like a challenge for some ambitious individual to make it more of a
nuisance for Magnus to keep the site alive than to take it down. Perhaps
giving him a flood of email requests to take the site down or turn it over
(perhaps automated). I don't normally condone such activity, but it
appears
that his keeping the site up in its current state is malicious.
Regards,
Steve
(The Duck)
> People have been complaining about this for ten years, but it doesn't
> appear
> that we can do anything other than to encourage people to remove as many
> AdaHome links as possible from their web sites (so that its search
engine
> position drops). For one example, link to the real home of the Lovelace
> tutorial, not the (old) copy on AdaHome.
>
> Randy.
>
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