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That bothered me too. Trying a few though, it looks like they are 404s. Which is an interesting way to preserve a historical, but no longer valid link. If you a
by jacobr1 4y ago
That bothered me too. Trying a few though, it looks like they are 404s. Which is an interesting way to preserve a historical, but no longer valid link. If you are going to the trouble, it might be better to rewrite the links to point to Archive.org or something.
- dredmorbius 4y agoLinking an archived copy (and proactively making an archive submission when initially linking, which seems to be an increasingly common practice), would be preferable.
- smeagull 4y agoUgh. Links are meant to live forever.
- dredmorbius 4y agoIs/ought fallacy. They clearly don't, despite 30+ years of whinging. (I've whinged plenty myself.) Preemptive defence is justified, necessary, and strongly advised. The Web is not an archival platform, it's a publishing one. Each request is served in the moment it's requested, and absent specific measures for persistance can and will vanish at any time without notice.