Re: Sad Day for Ada - Update your links

[David Trudgett <wpower@zeta.org.au.nospamplease>]

Jeff Creem <jcreem@yahoo.com> writes:

> Oh well. It was time for my annual (or at least bi-annual) trip to the
> whois database to watch to see if the ada home dot com domain was
> going to expire (not written as a URL to avoid giving googlebot more
> links to the site than it already has).
>
> ada home dot com was once a great site for up to date Ada information
> but about 6 years ago it stopped getting updated at all (other than
> the automated headline script at the left side of the page that shows
> the date).

About six years ago was 1999, the date of this post (apparently) from
Magnus Kempe, in which he claims to be happy to have a competent
volunteer maintain his FAQ (why does an individual "own" the FAQ for
Ada?):

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Subject: Re: adverts on c.l.a
Date: 1999/03/04
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> ... Magnus Kempe
> has expressed that he is no longer actively working on AdaHome

You are mistaken.
Please ask me before you make such statements in public, thank you.


> or as it
> seems the FAQs.

I'll gladly leave the maintenance of the FAQs to a competent volunteer
(please contact me at edi...@adahome.com as well as Team-Ada to discuss
it).


Magnus Kempe
edi...@adahome.com
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Has Magnus disappeared off the face of the earth or something? Is it
true that in six years no one has been interested enough to create
another FAQ which is up-to-date and not controlled by an individual?


David




-- 

David Trudgett
http://www.zeta.org.au/~wpower/

Every man of the present day with the Christian principles assimilated
involuntarily in his conscience, finds himself in precisely the
position of a man asleep who dreams that he is obliged to do something
which even in his dream he knows he ought not to do. He knows this in
the depths of his conscience, and all the same he seems unable to
change his position; he cannot stop and cease doing what he ought not
to do. And just as in a dream, his position becoming more and more
painful, at last reaches such a pitch of intensity that he begins
sometimes to doubt the reality of what is passing and makes a moral
effort to shake off the nightmare which is oppressing him.

This is just the condition of the average man of our Christian
society. He feels that all that he does himself and that is done,
around him is something absurd, hideous, impossible, and opposed to
his conscience; he feels that his position is becoming more and more
unendurable and reaching a crisis of intensity. 

    -- Leo Tolstoy, "The Kingdom of God is Within You"