9 Nov 2007: I have no plans to re-open the site as it was or as a secret society (stop asking!). I sent all the files and information to various people who volounteered to turn convert all into links, but so far I have not heard anything back. Also, on the request of LINGUIST LIST I did offer to help set up and maintain a link-version of the old site hosted by them. This would probably have been advantageous because it would be easier to approach people to submit materials as LINGUIST LIST than as a random interested person like myself. But LINGUIST LIST changed their mind on this, possibly they weren't really serious in the first place, and declined the offer. Nevertheless, the good news is that Susanne Vejdemo and ึsten Dahl (Stockholm University) are apparently working on a re-make of the old site with links plus more links, which will be harvestable through LINGUIST LIST. I am not involved and I don't know anything more at this time.

14 May 2007: Everyone is asking about the sarcastic comment about the linguistic community and the reason the site is down. The reason is that I got negative emails from two Australian linguists (Nick Thieberger and David Nash). They were unhappy that I had local copies of their respective PhD theses, as well as documents collated from the PARADISEC site (headed by Nick Thieberger). The theses and paradisec data materials are protected by copyright agreements that I have read, agreed and understood. Technically they are prefectly right, but as these materials are available freely anyway, I did not think that keeping a local copy was a big deal. Most of the files on the site were in that situation, i.e., they are freely available but copyrighted, so it's not allowed to keep local copies for distribution, so in keeping with David and Nick's criticism, I took all offline. The alternative would be to have links instead of local copies, but spending time on changing 1100 links is not a meaningsful activity to me. I have tried to argue with David and Nick (they are reasonable people) that their position makes little sense when it comes to research materials and our shared goals on open access research, but I have not been able to convince them.

15 March 2007: Sorry the the stolen grammars site is no more. The linguistic community can provide this service way better than I can. If in doubt about this, please contact your nearest representative of the linguistic community, sit back and see things happen.