Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Jul 2020 15:47:08 -0600 | From | Jonathan Corbet <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] CREDITS: remove link http://www.dementia.org/~shadow |
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On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 21:38:05 +0200 "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@al2klimov.de> wrote:
> Rationale: > The way it redirects looks like a fallback from a dead URL to a generic one. > > Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@al2klimov.de> > --- > Yes, I noted that some of the links removed by these "CREDITS: remove link:" > patches have email addresses with the same domain nearby. > > Don't worry, I'll take care of them together with all other > dead email addresses - but not right now. > > > CREDITS | 1 - > 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS > index 0787b5872906..92ad22b7ef56 100644 > --- a/CREDITS > +++ b/CREDITS > @@ -483,7 +483,6 @@ D: Intel Wireless WiMAX Connection 2400 SDIO driver > > N: Derrick J. Brashear > E: shadow@dementia.org > -W: http://www.dementia.org/~shadow
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.
Thoughts anybody?
Thanks,
jon
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