Date:         Sun, 7 Jul 2002 18:07:19 -0500
Reply-To:     "joe@cedar.net" <joe@CEDAR.NET>
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From:         "joe@cedar.net" <joe@CEDAR.NET>
Subject:      Re: AOL loses people's web sites!
Comments: To: Clive Smith <clive.harman-smith@NTLWORLD.COM>
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With any ISP you are responsible for keeping a backup. But never
fear the Way Back machine may help. www.archive.org may very
well have a back up of your site for you. That is unless AOL
does something funky that would prevent the archiving....

Joe

On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Clive Smith wrote:

> Veeery intereesting Dave, not personally, but I think I would be pretty
> peeved - have you not stored all the constituent files somewhere else, for
> safe keeping?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "digest Herbie Dave" <Vwdude1957@AOL.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2002 11:55 PM
> Subject: AOL loses people's web sites!
>
>
> > Everyone,
> >
> > This isn't a vanagon issue but since some of you are on AOL I thought you
> > should know. AOL has lost (forever) many customer's web sites with no
> > explaination. Personally, I lost my VW website of 5 years. I put in
> thousands
> > of hours of hard work and I am outraged!  Has anyone else here lost sites
> on
> > AOL? If so, please e-mail me. I would like to get a group together ans
> seek
> > legal action against AOL.
> > Thanks
> > Dave
> > vwdude1957@aol.com
> >
>