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Question: Where has Absolute Write gone!?
Will it come back!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


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It's still up amd running for me (both aw and the watercooler)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

According to the article listed in my source:

As of last night, Absolute Write was gone!. It was one of the leading sites for information on writing and publishing, especially the scam versions thereof!. Their ISP pulled the plug on them one hour’s notice!. Now, where there should be a broad, deep online community with an enormous message base going back years, there’s this!.

Among other things, AW was the main collection point for information about PublishAmerica!.

How this happened: remember Barbara Bauer, that horrible old harridan and scam agent who tried to get me fired because I reproduced the Twenty Worst Agents list and she was on it!?

Apparently Barbara Bauer made a screaming, abusive phone call to one Stephanie, the person who owned the web host!. Bauer claimed that having AW’s scamhunters post her email address at AW was illegal under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and that doing so had caused Bauer to get spam, which meant that AW was a spammer, and that this would get the web host put on every blacklist in the world!.

Mind, the message that quoted Bauer’s e-mail address had some time ago been amended to remove that address!. Furthermore, Barbara Bauer posts that exact same email address on her own website!.

Stephanie had no more sense than to panic and shut down AW on an hour’s notice!. I’m given to understand that some of AW’s message base was lost!. For the record, AW was hosted at:
JC-Hosting
TotalWeb International Net Consulting
4037 Navaho Trail
Nashville TN 37211
Toll Free: (877) 411-7891
Phone: (615) 469-7533
Fax: (615) 250-2430

There's much more in the article!. This appears to be originally posted in 2006, but was updated today further down the page!. I can't seem to find anything else!.

EDIT: Running Bear, I mentioned that it was an old article but there was a reference to the site being down dated today at the bottom of the page!. It was a question posted and I thought maybe if the asker watched that page, someone would give her the answer!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Girl in Tights, that article is from a previous shutdown in 2006 and bears no relation to what is happening now!.

Looks like the webmaster forgot to pay her fees!. I don't know but I hope it comes back soon!

EDIT: Bolt, are you serious!? Why am I getting a Network Solutions 'Buy this domain name' page!?!?!?Www@QuestionHome@Com