Re: AdaHome - A Persistent Problem

["Steve" <nospam_steved94@comcast.net>]

"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote in message 
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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.
>
>