From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e87c7ceb455db17c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-23 06:44:22 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!uninett.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Solid facts to promote Ada Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:44:22 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PVV Message-ID: References: <3f973ff2_2@news.tm.net.my> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1066916662 23280 129.241.83.82 (23 Oct 2003 13:44:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:44:22 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.0 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1507 Date: 2003-10-23T13:44:22+00:00 List-Id: On 2003-10-23, Steve wrote: > > Except perhaps that the original Adrian clearly did not want the address > posted the way you did. Unfortunately there is no way of taking it back > now. Then why ever post it at all? Why have a domain at all? There are plenty of robots crawling the web finding addresses. My logs show they are regularily visiting. However if this is a problem them you should really check your setup and tools to use. > If you think there is no reason to put spaces in a url, say so, don't and > remove the spaces. How RUDE! The url wasn't correct. Would be a nice future if one had to write any URL as a particualer domain owner would like it like http://w w w . a d r i a n X X X . c o m/ http://www.adapower+remove-this.com/ http://www.a d a w o r l d+nospam-thankyou.com/ etc.. But ok at least I will remove the link I had planned to the paper from my web page. Preben -- "Saving keystrokes is the job of the text editor, not the programming language."