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,c5a8ae4bbe6e3bae X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-16 15:20:53 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-04!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What Can We do About AdaHome.com Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 17:22:13 -0500 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: References: <3EED5D88.56EA3591@adaworks.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3719.2500 X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39289 Date: 2003-06-16T17:22:13-05:00 List-Id: Preben Randhol wrote in message ... >Richard Riehle wrote: >> One of my students used AdaHome.com as a bibliographic >> reference in a recent paper turned in to me. I noted that >> AdaHome is no longer a viable source of up-to-date information >> about Ada. He corrected the reference. >> >> The problem is that AdaHome continues to be a bad choice >> for anyone trying to get current information about Ada. How >> can we correct this problem? > >Perhaps one could write to Kempe Software Capital Enterprises => >http://www.ksce.com/ and ask if one could get to some sort of agreement? I tried that; I would have even tried to get the ARA to provide some money if that was necessary. But he doesn't seem to want to tell anyone what he actually wants. Anyway, I've been campaigning to eliminate as many links as possible to AdaHome. That should cause it to drop down (or off) of the Google search engine results, which seems to be about all we can do. (And, of course, when searching for Ada related info, use the Ada wide search engine at http://www.adaic.com/site/wide-search.html - you can include AdaHome in those searches, but it is not included by default.) If you know of any web sites that link to Ada Home, ask the web master to find alternative links. Feel free to have them contact me; I've found alternatives for nearly everything. (For instance, the Lovelace tutorial is hosted at a number of other places, the author has moved the "official" version to another site. Don't link to the Ada Home version.) Randy.