AdaHome - A Persistent Problem
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From: adaworks on 1 Apr 2008 11:35 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? Richard Riehle
From: Pascal Obry on 1 Apr 2008 12:51 adaworks(a)sbcglobal.net a �crit : > 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? Don't know but here is our guy: http://www.linkedin.com/in/magnuskempe Pascal. -- --|------------------------------------------------------ --| Pascal Obry Team-Ada Member --| 45, rue Gabriel Peri - 78114 Magny Les Hameaux FRANCE --|------------------------------------------------------ --| http://www.obry.net --| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination" --| --| gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-key C1082595
From: Randy Brukardt on 1 Apr 2008 15:19 <adaworks(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:hDsIj.36771$J41.10422(a)newssvr14.news.prodigy.net... > 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. 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.
From: Steve on 2 Apr 2008 22:20 "Randy Brukardt" <randy(a)rrsoftware.com> wrote in message news:fsu1su$8p3$1(a)jacob-sparre.dk... > <adaworks(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote in message > news:hDsIj.36771$J41.10422(a)newssvr14.news.prodigy.net... >> 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. > >
From: Georg Bauhaus on 3 Apr 2008 06:32
Steve wrote: > 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. Please, consider the effects. The site archives quite some valuable material. And, one might even argue that when a link does not work, it is information. A broken link traces changes such as Ada 9X/95 resources being taken off the net elsewhere. You can then at least try to find the resource---because you have a name, a title, and so on. The site offers some articles exclusively. For example, there is an overview article by Tucker Taft that briefly outlines enhancements that Ada 9X contributes to Ada 83, with examples. The focus of the EE Times article from 1994 is on Ada for embedded systems development. Its focal points let you see clearly what Ada is all about. A remarkable quality, IMHO. http://www.adahome.com/Resources/Papers/General/EE-Times-940606-Taft.html Can you find this anywhere else? And can't we just trust in today's "web users" capabilities? Won't they see that Adahome.com is an old book on the web book shelf, among others? Or is it that relevant readers prefer not to use Google? Or do they read only what they are given? |