Re: [PATCH] CREDITS: remove link http://www.dementia.org/~shadow
From: Christian Kujau
Date: Wed Jul 15 2020 - 02:23:51 EST
On Tue, 14 Jul 2020, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> > N: Derrick J. Brashear
> > E: shadow@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > -W: http://www.dementia.org/~shadow
That particular entry moved to:
W: http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~shadow/
(The https version only supports TLSv1, and Firefox balks)
Otherwise, what Jon said:
> So thanks for addressing these. That said, I do wonder if this is quite
> the right thing to do. I'm assuming that the old sites still exist in the
> wayback machine somewhere, and somebody might actually want to find them.
> Pity the poor anthropologist researching the origins of the the
> billion-line, free-software kernels widely used in the 2500's...
>
> So maybe we should either mark it as "[BROKEN]" or make a direct link into
> the wayback machine instead? That would enable the suitably motivated to
> go after the content that once existed.
As an innocent bystander, I'd opt for [BROKEN] tags, or Wayback machine
substitutes, instead of just removing those entries.
My 2 cents,
Christian.
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