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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@al2klimov.de>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, ribalda@kernel.org,
	viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, mchehab+samsung@kernel.org,
	luis.f.correia@gmail.com, geert+renesas@glider.be,
	paulburton@kernel.org, cyphar@cyphar.com, martink@posteo.de,
	davej@codemonkey.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CREDITS: remove link http://www.dementia.org/~shadow
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 15:47:08 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200714154708.71b3efe2@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200714193805.49746-1-grandmaster@al2klimov.de>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-14 21:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-10 19:43 [PATCH] CREDITS: replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones and add myself Alexander A. Klimov
2020-07-10 21:46 ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-07-11  5:36   ` Alexander A. Klimov
2020-07-11  5:51   ` [PATCH] CREDITS: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones Alexander A. Klimov
2020-07-13 17:43     ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-07-13 22:12       ` Alexander A. Klimov
2020-07-13 22:46         ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-07-14 17:55       ` [PATCH v2] " Alexander A. Klimov
2020-07-14 19:39         ` [PATCH] CREDITS: remove link: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/penberg/ Alexander A. Klimov
2020-07-14 19:39         ` [PATCH] CREDITS: remove link http://www.mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de/~floeff Alexander A. Klimov
2020-07-15  7:02           ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-07-14 19:39         ` [PATCH] CREDITS: remove link: http://www.andante.org Alexander A. Klimov
2020-07-15  7:07           ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-07-23 20:54         ` [PATCH v2] CREDITS: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones Jonathan Corbet
2020-07-14 19:38       ` [PATCH] CREDITS: remove link http://www.dementia.org/~shadow Alexander A. Klimov
2020-07-14 21:47         ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2020-07-14 21:56           ` Randy Dunlap
2020-07-15  6:23           ` Christian Kujau
2020-07-15 17:56         ` Marc Dionne

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