[Info-vax] Using CSWB for the HP-forums on their new web-portal

[Paul Sture]

In article <00AB23F5.29392170 at SendSpamHere.ORG>,
 VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:

> In article <be62$4e1c3601$82a13c9d$12927 at news1.tudelft.nl>, JOUKJ 
> <joukj at hrem.nano.tudelft.nl> writes:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >Did anyone try to use CSWB on a OpenVMS machine to post messages to the 
> >(OpenVMS-)forums on HP's new support web-portal.
> >I did not succeed: everything I typed seems to get lost. I could only 
> >get the "quote" in when I was replying to a post..
> >Anybody more luck?
> 
> This "new" and "improved" site may be new but it is anything but improved.
> I entered my username and password, and then wait for minutes to get back
> the message:  HP Passport is unavailable.
> 
> It took several days until my SAID was synched up where I could access the
> patch database.
> 
> And, one of the more unnerving things of all is that Google references to
> the old ITRC are all useless.  If you go to search for something related
> to VMS, you're likely to find a wealth of dead-end referneces to the ITRC.

I believe there is a means for webmasters to inform Google that "this 
site no longer exists" and have its entries removed from the index.

> The only winning move is to come back to comp.os.vms! :)

-- 
Paul Sture