I need advice on a path forward then. From emails I got from Michael, Bill
Dawson gave him authority over both
swtpc.com and
swtpc.org.
Originally, Bill Dawson had
swtpc.com but Michael was managing/uploading
much of the content there under the mholley subdirectory
(
www.swtpc.com/mholley). Michael registered
swtpc.org and I set that as a
redirect to the subdirectory on
swtpc.com. Michael stated that at some point
the sites would be merged and he would be the sole site maintainer.
So now I am hosting
swtpc.com and
swtpc.org, and ownership of the site is up
in the air. Whoever owns
swtpc.com doesn't have an A record, which
effectively kills off
swtpc.org (redirect fails) as well. All that good
content (and there's a fair amount) is no longer accessible. I see herb
johnson ripped the site and has a copy over at deramp, but no clue if that
is a complete copy that descended from Bill or Mikes wishes.
My initial plan - since I have no registrar access to
swtpc.com and it
doesn't point to my name servers, nothing I can do. But
swtpc.org at least
still, is pointing to my nameservers. I will change the apache config from a
redirect to the real contents (but not sure if it should bring up the
content that was
swtpc.com or
swtpc.org). At least a real site will be up.
That being said, I am moving the sites I host free from one server to
another. That project is ongoing the past few days. I would like to move
swtpc.* as well, but see above.
If someone has a reasonably cogent claim to the content I would hand the
site (both) to them. If it's long been gone and other copies are complete
and commonly used, then I could just delete it but hesitant to do so. I
would like to decommission the old server but this should be resolved first.
Feel free to send me advice/thoughts/claims/rants off-list.
J