Von: Arthur Teschler[SMTP:Arthur.Teschler@informatik.med.uni-giessen.de] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 3. Dezember 1998 20:54 An: webpages-l@genealogy.net Betreff: Re: [webpages-l] vote to remove our pages from genealogy.com ?

On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Richard Heli wrote:

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Hmmm, I am not sure. Is it really best to have the pages removed right away? They will not be out of date for a while. Perhaps it would be more useful to leave them until the 21st so that people will at least find something? In the meantime we could publicize on s.g.g that people should change their links?

Just a thought -- what do you think?

I'm afraid most people who visit our pages are not on any mailing list and won't read any of our announcements anyway. If we wait until the 21st we just delay the problem and play Broderbund's cards. If we have our contents deleted now and inform the key sites (Cindy's list, Altavista etc.) about the change, we have the same gap of desinformation but not for Broderbund's profit.

Arthur.Teschler@uni-giessen.de

This is exactly the point : I have /reg/CH/ removed from link collections (like Cyndi's), but to remove the URLs from (most) search engines works only it the URL is not any longer valid. Once Broderbund is forwarding requests of these URLs to their own pages, we'll never be able to delete the links. So it has to be done before Broderbund has set something up ! Best regards - Wolf ---------------------- Wolf W. Seelentag, PhD, e-mail : wolf@swissmail.com Reherstr. 19, CH - 9016 St. Gallen, Switzerland Tel (home) : +41-71-2885121 Tel (work) : +41-71-4942233 Fax : +41-71-4942893