According to the personal sites of the owners, they're shutting down
http://jccordray.com/
http://sgcordray.com/
I'm not a webmaster, but I think you can block certain referrers. For example, people coming from wikipedia or absolutewrite.com will click a link that is valid, but nothing or a different page shows up.
I'm sure if I'm wrong someone will correct me.
I was just looking at the Barbara Bauer wiki, and it looks like Ms. Bauer herself edited her page. It's since been edited back, but if you look at the history you can read what she wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barbara_Bauer&oldid=57613639
I have a copy of Planemaker that I received from a fellow Absolute Write member. It's the same physical copy that Researchguy Ken originally bought. (I didn't get it from Ken. He had passed it on himself.) I won't post my review here, and I probably won't post it anywhere else either. But if someone here wants it, just give me a holla'.
JamesC posts quite a bit more over at the http://sgcordray.com/?p=26 blog in the comments. There's even a rare, perfectly-formed The Lurkers Support Me in Email statement. You don't see too many of those in the wild anymore.
Hmmm.
It's starting to sound to me like you didn't pay your own bills or didn't want to pay to upgrade your own bandwidth allotment, and you had run out. The two-gig transfer of the database would've knocked you over the edge, so you decided to hem and haw and stall until June 1 when your meter was reset.
Hey, this thread and the earlier one were just BoingBoinged.
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/05/31/antipublishingscam_s.html
I was farked a month ago, and I got 65,000 hits in one day. I understand BB gets more hits than Fark.
Zen:
I agree with you regarding the personal writing placed in the poetry forum and the share your work forum. But not with everything else.
Most of this stuff only has a value when it exists in its entirety. The Uncle Jim's Writing thread, for example. Who would bother to back up the three sentence question they asked? Or the two-sentence answer? The real value comes from the group of posts... The whole thing which I only posted in a couple times is more valuable than any book on writing I've ever seen.
Maybe I should've saved it. Honestly, the thought never entered my brain. I'm glad to hear others have.
I don't think Moondancer was a PA author. Last year she posted "I'm not a PA author or an author at all... yet.." on the AW board (found via Google cache)
Her blog is http://www.sgcordray.com/ and it doesn't mention it. (Though was she does mention is pretty suspicious for the tin-foil hat types like myself).
I have been wrong before, though.
Wowzers. And I thought it was just a bandwidth issue. If Barbara Bauer thought she had issues with people talking about her on the web before, she's going to sorely regret it this time tomorrow.
I do hope Jenna and gang inform their new ISP of what had happened, in case it's attempted again.
That's just what I want. An agent that runs around throwing hysterical, unfounded complaints toward large publishers.
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