Stop Calling Me

It seems as if the Aiken Bicycle Club has forgotten to renew their web hosting agreement, maybe even on purpose, so a Google search turns up an old link. That Geocities page has me listed as the Secretary and Newsletter Editor. The President, VP and Treasurer are, I think, no longer living around here, so none of their contact info is worth a darn. Neither of my email addresses are valid, but the phone number is still good and last weekend I got not one, but two calls asking about bike rides. There have been others previously on a sporadic basis, but two in two days made me want to do something about it.

I created that page back in the early 90s on Geocities and the page you see is a cookie crumb left behind in 2001 when the ABC went big time and got their own domain. It hasn’t been touched since and there is no way I can remember what the log in info is so I could change it or take it down. Today I used the Yahoo contact page to ask then to take the site down. I’m sure I’m spitting in the wind.

A long, long time ago I created a web site for my local bicycle club. I have moved on and so has the bicycle club, but unfortunately the old Geocities web site has not. I no longer remember the username or password for the site and undoubtedly any email address I used as a contact is no longer valid.

If you search the web for the ABC the first result is the old Geocities site and I am still getting phone calls requesting information I can no longer supply. Is there anyway that the site could be decommissioned on my request?

If not maybe it could be removed for violating your Terms of Service, to wit:

7.2 Prohibited Uses
(p) use your home page (or directory) as storage for remote loading or as a door or signpost to another home page, whether inside or beyond Yahoo! GeoCities;

Thank you for any help in this manner.

There is another Geocities page that comes in a close second when searching the web for the ABC and it also has my phone number listed. I emailed the contact on that page over a week ago and have not heard back from the owner yet. If I had to bet he is in the same boat as I am and has long since forgotten his Yahoo login info too and is too embarrassed to admit it to me. I searched for his name, Andy Nagai, and found a photography site with the domain of nagaiphotos.com. I know this is the same person because it has the same email address I used to try and contact him. It also listed his phone number (626-392-9506.) A reverse look up of that number results in a California cell phone that may or may not still belong to him (and I’m not paying anything to find out), so maybe I should just call it…