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I think the MG Web Ring has been gone for a long time, like years
even.<br><br>
The MG Site Ring is different, and I have been managing that one for many
years. As of first of this year Bravenet discontinued their site
ring service, without notice. So the long standing MG Site Ring
(with about 140 remining linked member web sites) is suddenly
defunct. If you have a link to that service, you can now remove the
MG Site Ring linking block from your web page. They pulled the plug
so suddenly that I didn't even have a chance to notify the Ring members,
so there was no opportunnity to make other arrangements. Sometimes
free is not such a good deal.<br><br>
On the other question, the domain name <b>mgcars.org.uk</b> had been
dinscontinued some years ago, and was replaces with
<b>mg-cars.org.uk</b> (add the hyphen). I don't know why, but
in the meantime the old domain name was bring forwarded to the new one,
so everything has coniinued to work. I guess after some years they
finally stopped paying the old domain name fee and let it laps. So
if you have anything linked to
<a href="http://www.mgcars.org.uk/" eudora="autourl">www.mgcars.org.uk</a>
you can change the link to
<a href="http://www.mg-cars.org.uk/" eudora="autourl">
www.mg-cars.org.uk</a> and it should work again.<br><br>
Barney Gaylord, ex-ringmaster<br>
MG Site Ring, deprecited<br><br>
Still webmaster for<br>
<a href="http://www.chicagolandmgclub.com/" eudora="autourl">
www.ChicagolandMGclub.com<br>
</a><a href="http://www.mgaguru.com/" eudora="autourl">www.MGAguru.com</a>
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At 12:08 AM 1/31/2018 +0000, David Breneman via Mgs wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">I was doing some maintenance on
my web site and noticed that the link at the bottom was no longer getting
populated with the pictorial link the the MG Web Ring. I went to
the URL and it looks like a domain squatter has it now.<br><br>
<a href="http://www.mgcars.org.uk/webring/">
http://www.mgcars.org.uk/webring/</a><br><br>
Is it defunct?</blockquote></body>
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