Re: AdaHome: was: Free GNU Ada Run-Time Book

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

Jeffrey Creem wrote in message ...
>Wes Groleau" <wesgroleau@despammed.com> wrote in message
>news:V7lL9.2264$c6.2637@bos-> Perhaps Ada fans (or site-rot opponents)
could
>> occasionally look for links to AdaHome and
>> politely suggest better sites to the webmasters.
>
>I've done that. Also both David Botton and myself have tried to by the
>adahome domain each time it comes up for renewal.  The last time, it
was
>past expiration for about 30 days before the prior owner renewed it.


The only problem with that is that then we would lose access to the
material there, much of which isn't anywhere else. The obvious example
is Lovelace. We'd be happy to host it on AdaIC, but we'd need to get
permission from the author.

This is the same reason why the ancient AdaIC material is still on-line.
It gets plenty of hits, too (and not just from web crawlers). And its
why AdaHome will be included in the Ada-wide search engine we're working
on - if the information needed is there, and nowhere else more recent,
I'd rather they found it there than not at all.

               Randy Brukardt
               Technical Webmaster, AdaIC.org