ATTN: Mike Wiley (or anyone who knows what happened to his site)

[fro...@mississippi.net]

While doing some link/URL housecleaning for Highway Heaven this
afternoon, I noticed that Mike Wiley's Oregon Highways website has
disappeared completely. Does anyone know the situation with this, or
if it moved elsewhere?

The former URL was http://www.ylekot.com/orehwys/

Froggie | Picayune, MS | http://www.ajfroggie.com/roads/

[Andrew Tompkins]

<fro...@mississippi.net> wrote in message
news:1138396520.1...@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...

I noticed that it had gone down 3 or 4 months ago. Looks like the
ylekot.com domain has gone to a payday loan site with page copywrites
of 2005. Don't know where Mike (or his site) went. Too bad because
he had a really good site on Oregon's strange highway system.

--Andy
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Andrew G. Tompkins
Software Engineer
Beaverton, OR
http://home.comcast.net/~andytom/Highways
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[Steve]

If someone contacts him and he's not interested in maintaining a
website, please let him know I'd be happy to host his content on my
(currently pitiful) Oregon site.

--
Steve Alpert
MIT - B.S. '05, M.S. (Transportation) '06
http://web.mit.edu/smalpert/www/roads

[Chris Bessert]

Andrew Tompkins wrote:

> <fro...@mississippi.net> wrote:
>
>>While doing some link/URL housecleaning for Highway Heaven this
>>afternoon, I noticed that Mike Wiley's Oregon Highways website has
>>disappeared completely. Does anyone know the situation with this,
>>or if it moved elsewhere?
>>
>>The former URL was http://www.ylekot.com/orehwys/
>

> I noticed that it had gone down 3 or 4 months ago. Looks like the
> ylekot.com domain has gone to a payday loan site with page copywrites
> of 2005. Don't know where Mike (or his site) went. Too bad because
> he had a really good site on Oregon's strange highway system.

I'll go as far as saying Mike's site was excellent. I derived some
inspiration from his site over the years, including using old-style
route markers to denote former/decommissioned highways -- which I now
do on my Michigan and Wisconsin sites. I also found the site extremely
interesting before and after my 2004 Oregon-Washington-British Columbia
trip.

I hope all is well with Mike and if anyone contacts him, let him know
that. I hope someone can bring his great site back sometime soon with
his blessing. It'd be sad to loose it!

Later,
Chris

--
Chris Bessert
Bess...@aol.com
http://www.michiganhighways.org
http://www.wisconsinhighways.org
http://www.ontariohighways.org

[big...@yahoo.com]

I echo the sentiment here: Mike's site was great and really inspired my
interest in roadgeekdom in general when I discovered it a few years
back. Unfortunately, the last I actually heard from Mike was in 2004,
when he briefly corresponded with me about Oregon's new routes. I hope
he can get the pages back up, or pass them along to someone else to
maintain, as they were one of the best road sites on the web.

Chris

[Malarky]

Right now, the only other Oregon Highways page is Jason of O-Roads,
which is incomplete (and plagued by the evil that Angelfire is).
http://www.angelfire.com/or3/oroads/roads/

[ylekot]

Hey all,

I'm still around!

I won't get into my personal drama, but I simply did not have the time
to invest into the site, so I let the domain go and brought down the
web site.

I'm hoping later this year I can bring the site back up with a new
domain name more appropriate for the purpose.

Stand-by!

...And thanks for all the compliments. It was a little like getting to
attend your own funeral...You don't realize the impact you had on
people until you go away!

Mike Wiley
mike....@yahoo.com