At 05:08 PM 11/27/00 -0600, F. Britt Snodgrass wrote:

>I wrote to the author about this today and received a very nice reply.
>He said that the URL's he provided for the article had been heavily
>edited.  He also said he had submitted a revised article to Linux
>Journal after he learned that AdaHome was so neglected article but that
>they still used his original submission.  I will also write to Linux
>Journal to thank them for publishing the article and to provide
>additional URL's.

So one begins to wonder about the competence of the editors of Linux Journal.

Anyway, thanks for being proactive on this issue.  I do feel it is very
important.


>Otherwise, it was a very positive article that will definitely promote
>the use of Ada on Linux.  I read the newsstand edition but it can be
>read on-line at
>http://www2.linuxjournal.com/cgi-bin/frames.pl/index.html by registered
>subscribers to Linux Journal.

I assume I can register on line?  (You really don't need to answer
this.  I'll probably have tried before you get back to me.)

>With regard to AdaHome, I checked the "whois" database and saw that the
>adahome.com domain name is registered through Sep 12 of this year.
>Apparently Magnus Kempe is still paying the yearly registration fee.
>Rather a mystery...

I'm confused.  Do you mean Sep 12 of 2000?  If so, then perhaps he did NOT
renew.  Or do you mean Sep 12 of 2001?  If the latter, then yes, mysterious
. . .

Has ANYONE seen or heard from Magnus within the last year or so?

sro
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