Demetria

ALL links to www.home-ed-press.com changed to
>http://www.home-ed-magazine.com as quickly as possible. The old
>home-ed-press URL is currently linked to a pornographic website
>administrated by a company in Armenia.
>
>WARNING - Please DON'T check out that old home-ed-press site out of
>idle curiosity, because it is a "virulent"* porn site that will keep
>opening multiple windows until your browser or your whole machine
>crashes. If you're really *that* curious to see what's there, please
>save everything before clicking the link. *virulent - highly
>infective, rapidly spreading, deadly
>
>This message is on our website at
>http://www.home-ed-magazine.com/badurl.html. We will post any updates
>and additional information on that page.
>
>A little history: We created the home-ed-press.com domain name when
>we were publishing books on homeschooling several years ago. We sold
>the book publishing part of our company when we decided to focus on
>the magazine, but we kept the home-ed-press.com URL mirrored to our
>home-ed-magazine.com site because so many homeschooling websites
>showed to the old URL <home-ed-press.com> as their link to Home
>Education Magazine's many features and free services.
>
>But somehow the registration on the home-ed-press.com domain name
>expired (we're still trying to figure out how it expired without our
>knowledge), and it was bought by a wholesale company, which leased or
>rented it just last week to an overseas company which linked it to a
>porn site, obviously to capitalize on the high number of links.
>
>So here we are, with a big mess on our hands: A widely linked
>homeschooling URL linked to a gnarly pornography site. We are working
>to straighen out the mess, but we need help. All the help we can get.
>
>PLEASE - If you have a link to the old home-ed-press domain name on
>your website please change it to home-ed-magazine.com as soon as
>possible. Please check the sites for your local homeschooling support
>group, your local public library, your favorite online resources -
>anyplace that might have a link to Home Education Magazine's hundreds
>of pages via the old home-ed-press.com URL.
>
>Webmasters: We offer the following advice from Ann Zeise, who first
>notified us of this problem:
>
>Here's how to find out if you have any home-ed-press links on your
>site. Go to the search engine at http://www.altavista.com In the
>search field put the following parameters (exchanging my
>www.gomilpitas.com URL for your own root directory in the last part):
>
>+link:www.home-ed-press.com
>-url:www.home-ed-press.com+url:www.gomilpitas.com
>
>If your site shows up at all on Altavista, you will be able to see if
>any pages have the errant URL on them. Then just go into your copy of
>these pages and do a ""FIND and REPLACE" and replace
>"www.home-ed-press.com" with "www.home-ed-magazine.com" -- They kept
>all the rest of the directories and paths the same, so your link will
>now go to its original destination. (Do check in case you just happen
>to have a link to a page they have removed for some reason. All of
>mine were corrected this way.)
>
>NOTE: using the first two parameters in this sort of search is a good
>way to find out who is linking to you. Just put in your own URL after
>"+link:" and "-url:". -Ann Zeise
>
>Please forward this notice to homeschooling and alternative education
>email lists, online newsletter editors, support group lists,
>educational reference lists - anyplace Home Education Magazine's
>award-winning website might be linked.
>
>This message is on our website at
>http://www.home-ed-magazine.com/badurl.html. We will post any updates
>and additional information on that page.
>
>Thank you for whatever you can do to help!
>
>Mark and Helen Hegener, Publishers
>Home Education Magazine
>HEM@...
>http://www.home-ed-magazine.com


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