HW: Andy Gilham and the domain war nonsense

[dhuggins]

One of the things that puzzled me 10 (?) years ago was why dint Dave and
Co. learn from Dougie's past performance? (and RE-hired him!!).  They could
have asked Lemmy about that one.

At 03:38 PM 10/6/01 +0100, you wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Nick Medford <nick at HERMIT0.DEMON.CO.UK>
>To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
>Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2001 2:34 PM
>Subject: Re: HW: Andy Gilham and the domain war nonsense
>
>
> > This is all really sad. I've also dealt with Andy and believe him to be a
> > thoroughly decent geezer, and a true fan who put tons of work into what
> > was an excellent site, not necessarily better or worse than Mission
>Control,
> > just very good in its own right. It's also true that the band will have
> > benefited from this work.
>
>Reading all the posts, particularly those from Dave & Andy I can understand
>why Andy feels hurt, but at the same time the band are trying to recover a
>valuable marketing tool: not from Andy but from EBS:Doug Smith (as I pointed
>out this morning on one of the HW lists, and Dave confirmed this pm, there
>are no members of Hawkwind listed as directors of EBS).  As I read the
>postings, Welcome to the Future could have continued under another URL as an
>unofficial fan site.
>
>The legal representation does read harshly but that's the way of the world
>and business is business. We have to accept, I think, that a possible
>compromise existed and appears to have been rejected, but at the end of the
>day the notice for recovery of the .com name was in essence aimed at the
>current owner of the url and not the webmaster.
>
>Yes, I think it is quite right that sympathy for Andy's position is being
>expressed. But I think it is very important for the continuation of the band
>that it exists on the best possible business footing, and that includes
>ownership of this imporant url.
>
>Ian