Hi, Does anyone know what has happened to www.webmolecules.com? I was going to ask this question last week, because the link had been dead for some weeks, and it had been very useful. Today, I had a deputation from our postgrads saying that the url is alive again, but it has now been taken over by a page that begins "If you are under 18 years of age or if it is illegal to view adult material in your community, please leave now." I have to get the link off all my web pages pronto - some of you may want to do the same. Regards Mary ---------------------- Dr Mary Masson Department of Chemistry University of Aberdeen Meston Walk, Aberdeen AB24 3UE Tel 01224 272931 Fax 01224 272921 email m.masson@abdn.ac.uk chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)
Hi, There seems to be a spate of chemistry sites being taken over by porn sites! I've just been informed of a similar problem with the following link: Encyclopedia of Analytical Instrumentation http://www.scimedia.com/chem-ed/analytic/ac-meths.htm now says "This website contains adult material not appropriate to be viewed by minors, If you are not 21 or older please do NOT enter." Let's hope this isn't happening to too many chemistry web resources! Lesley ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lesley Crawshaw, Faculty Information Consultant, LIS, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB UK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ e-mail: l.a.crawshaw@herts.ac.uk phone: 01707 284662 fax: 01707 284666 web: http://www.herts.ac.uk/lis/subjects/natsci/ejournal/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Encyclopedia of Analytical Instrumentation -----Original Message----- From: owner-chemweb@ic.ac.uk [mailto:owner-chemweb@ic.ac.uk]On Behalf Of Dr Mary Masson Sent: 16 August 2001 15:15 To: chemweb@ic.ac.uk Subject: webmolecules.com - warning Hi, Does anyone know what has happened to www.webmolecules.com? I was going to ask this question last week, because the link had been dead for some weeks, and it had been very useful. Today, I had a deputation from our postgrads saying that the url is alive again, but it has now been taken over by a page that begins "If you are under 18 years of age or if it is illegal to view adult material in your community, please leave now." I have to get the link off all my web pages pronto - some of you may want to do the same. Regards Mary ---------------------- Dr Mary Masson Department of Chemistry University of Aberdeen Meston Walk, Aberdeen AB24 3UE Tel 01224 272931 Fax 01224 272921 email m.masson@abdn.ac.uk chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk) chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)
There seems to be a spate of chemistry sites being taken over by porn sites! I've just been informed of a similar problem with the following link:
It's not really that they've been taken over. Somebody has probably forgotten to pay the annual fee for the domain name and so they've lost ownership. If you notice, both the sites mentioned say things like "This domain name for sale" or "Click here to buy this name" - it means that some Internet name company is trying to make lots of money. The scimedia.com name is available from NameRegister.com for anything over $550 by the looks of it - considering that they probably picked it up for $50 or so, it's a lucrative business. The sex sites bit comes from the fact that the only advertising that pays is for sex sites, so that's what they put on the pages - after all, these old domain names are probably on lots of people's links pages or bookmarks so they are bound to get some traffic. Pete -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Pete Biggs :{) pete@physchem.ox.ac.uk pete.biggs@chem.ox.ac.uk Phone: 01865 275490 (Work) 01865 275410 (Fax) pete@biggs.org.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~veni, vermini, vomui~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)
Dr Mary Masson wrote:
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Does anyone know what has happened to www.webmolecules.com? I was
This problem has been aired on the chminf-l list recently. Yes, apparently the owners of WebMolecules did not re-register their domain name and it got bought. Wendy -- Dr Wendy A Warr Wendy Warr & Associates, 6 Berwick Court Holmes Chapel, Cheshire CW4 7HZ, England Tel/fax +44 (0)1477 533837 wendy@warr.com http://www.warr.com chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)
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                Dr Mary Masson
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