[WEB4LIB] Re: Whale of a Web authenticity instruction story

[Michael L. McEvoy]

That is the correct address. The problem is that it's a Geocities site...
and Geocities isn't designed for the amount of traffic this hilarious page
has garnered.

On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Nancy Sosna Bohm wrote:

> http://www.geocities.com/lakemichiganwhales/  is "temporarily unavailable."
> Is this the correct address to the fake Whale page?
> 
> 
> on 11/18/02 9:55 AM, Donna Winter at dwinter at tln.lib.mi.us wrote:
> 
> > What a great example! The whale site looks very legit. I'm currently using
> > a link from soyouwanna.com to an article (in The Onion) about some guy winning
> > the Nobel Prize for "most ripped abs", but this one is even more subtle
> > and closer to home. :)
> > 
> > ----------------------------
> > Donna Winter                    Livonia Civic Center Library
> > Reference Librarian, Adult Services        32777 Five Mile Road
> > email:  dwinter at tln.lib.mi.us            Livonia, Michigan
> > phone: (734) 466-2494                ref. desk: (734) 466-2490
> > http://tln.lib.mi.us/~dwinter            http://livonia.lib.mi.us
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

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