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docs(README): drop dead VAO website link, point at Wayback snapshot (#748)#752

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docs(README): drop dead VAO website link, point at Wayback snapshot (#748)#752
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Closes #748.

www.usvao.org was the original VAO project website that funded the early development of PyVO. The domain has since lapsed and now resolves to a parking page that fingerprints visitors and offers the domain for sale, which is what the issue reports.

Drop the inline URL from the parenthetical and add a one-line note pointing at the 2019-01-06 Wayback snapshot so the historical project page stays reachable for anyone tracing the package's origins. The surrounding context is preserved as-is.

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www.usvao.org now redirects to a domain-parking page (the project
website was decommissioned). The README's inline reference '(VAO,
www.usvao.org)' takes users from a Python library README to a sales
page that fingerprints visitors, which is the opposite of useful.

Drop the inline URL from the parenthetical and add a one-line note
that points at the 2019-01-06 Wayback snapshot so the historical
project page stays reachable for anyone tracing the package's
origins.
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Thanks!

@msdemlei msdemlei merged commit 8ed7817 into astropy:main May 19, 2026
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Thanks for the quick turnaround! If the Wayback link isn't quite the shape you want long-term, happy to push a follow-up that either drops the parenthetical entirely or replaces it with a current IVOA/VAO reference. Just let me know.

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bsipocz commented May 19, 2026

I'm sorry for not reacting to the PR sooner, but I'm afraid I'll edit out the link and wayback machine from the readme. The link already redirects to navo, and it's not exactly the same thing so I think it will be cleaner to just do a cleanup.

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