question for Steve Levicoff

Why is http://levicoff.tripod.com a "blocked site" in the Wayback Machine (http://web.archive.org)?

(The question arose in this thread: http://www.degreeinfo.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9545)

 

Mark,

I can't answer your question, but thanks for the way back machine link! I managed to find several old interviews i did that I thought where lost FOREVER!

 

It was my call. Like mringer, I did not even know that the Wayback Machine existed until I saw the cited thread. I took my site down a few years ago, and I found that they had posted several of my copyrighted works, as well as personal documents, all without my permission. archive.org was quite responsive in removing them the day the other thread appeared.

As they say in the theater, "Always leave the audience wanting more." And always control your own publicity.

 

Steve,

Please accept my sincere apology. I probably should have realized had you wanted your site would have been available via its own URL.

We have David Boyd to thank for letting us know about the Wayback Machine.

http://forums.degreeinfo.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7122&highlight=wayback+machine

 

The Wayback Machine obeys robots.txt.

If you have robots.txt properly set up so that polite spiders (such as Wayback Machine and Google) will turn away, then your site won't appear in the archive.

 

No sweat, Charles.

I think that everyone should realize that anything posted to a web site, newsgroup, or forum such as this one becomes, in theory, a matter of public domain to a degree. Every statement we make (or every rant, in the case of some people) becomes a matter of public record - one which can come back to haunt someone years later.

The issue I had with the Wayback Machine is primarily that they essentially republished complete copyrighted works. (This is different than citing or quoting a published work with attribution, which is acceptable in academe.) In their favor, archive.org did expedite the removal of these works when I contacted them, and that contact was quite cordial.

As many know, the reason I removed Name It & Frame It from the web was that it was increasingly outdated - I had not revised or updated the book since 1994. There are more current resources available, and I leave the wacky world of distance education to those who are doing more current research than I am. I, as always, am more preoccupied with getting a suntan than saving the wold of distance ed.