Date sent: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 21:21:01 -0500
To: whittena
(at)uah.edu
From: Nick Francesco <nick
(at)AskNick.com>
Subject: Re: Bill Gates vs the World

At 3/7/01 06:28 PM, you wrote:

> Nick,
> As you can see below, I was tipped off about your website, 
http://AskNick.com/gates.html

Cool!

> As an instructor at UAH of HTML I made some editing changes to mainly clean up (stream-line, elegant) the
> of code with the intention using it as an example of tables in HTML, etc for one of my classes*, see:
>
http://cas.uah.edu/whittena/humor/gatesVworld.html

Are you saying that *gasp* code I ripped out at three o'clock one morning isn't perfect? Sigh...

> I, however, have not disclosed the above URL to anyone nor created links to it. I will not do so, until I have your permission to

You definitely have my permission. I'm flattered! Just one change: your mailto: for gatesvworld@asknick.com has nick@asknick.com as the address. Other than that, it's magnificent - thanks!

> use my modification of your page on my site. If you prefer I not add my revision of your page as a link from my:
>
http://cas.uah.edu/whittena/humor.html page, I'll take it down, no problem.

Nope, not a problem. As long as people understand you're revising my page for class purposes, I have no problems at all.

> Redoing the code allows me to use it as an illustration of clean code and protect against web rot (lost links)
> should your site change addresses or go down.

Although, of course, I'm hoping my site will be up for about 30 years, I fully understand the sentiment!

> *The class page:
>
http://cas.uah.edu/whittena/mis114/Syllabus114.html

Great looking class! I'm honored that you like my page. Enjoy! Nick Francesco <*> PC Guru <*> http://AskNick.com

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