I need advice on a path forward then. From emails I got from Michael, Bill Dawson gave him authority over both swtpc.com and swtpc.org. Originally, Bill Dawson had swtpc.com but Michael was managing/uploading much of the content there under the mholley subdirectory (www.swtpc.com/mholley). Michael registered swtpc.org and I set that as a redirect to the subdirectory on swtpc.com. Michael stated that at some point the sites would be merged and he would be the sole site maintainer.
So now I am hosting swtpc.com and swtpc.org, and ownership of the site is up in the air. Whoever owns swtpc.com doesn't have an A record, which effectively kills off swtpc.org (redirect fails) as well. All that good content (and there's a fair amount) is no longer accessible. I see herb johnson ripped the site and has a copy over at deramp, but no clue if that is a complete copy that descended from Bill or Mikes wishes. My initial plan - since I have no registrar access to swtpc.com and it doesn't point to my name servers, nothing I can do. But swtpc.org at least still, is pointing to my nameservers. I will change the apache config from a redirect to the real contents (but not sure if it should bring up the content that was swtpc.com or swtpc.org). At least a real site will be up. That being said, I am moving the sites I host free from one server to another. That project is ongoing the past few days. I would like to move swtpc.* as well, but see above. If someone has a reasonably cogent claim to the content I would hand the site (both) to them. If it's long been gone and other copies are complete and commonly used, then I could just delete it but hesitant to do so. I would like to decommission the old server but this should be resolved first. Feel free to send me advice/thoughts/claims/rants off-list. J
