From: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@al2klimov.de>,
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 23:23:43 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.22.1.446.2007142318110.9019@trent.utfs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200714154708.71b3efe2@lwn.net>
On Tue, 14 Jul 2020, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> > N: Derrick J. Brashear
> > E: shadow@dementia.org
> > -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.
--
BOFH excuse #128:
Power Company having EMP problems with their reactor
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-15 6:23 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
2020-07-14 21:56 ` Randy Dunlap
2020-07-15 6:23 ` Christian Kujau [this message]
2020-07-15 17:56 ` Marc Dionne
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