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Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 14:56:58 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@...klimov.de> Cc: torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, ribalda@...nel.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, mchehab+samsung@...nel.org, luis.f.correia@...il.com, geert+renesas@...der.be, paulburton@...nel.org, cyphar@...har.com, martink@...teo.de, davej@...emonkey.org.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] CREDITS: remove link http://www.dementia.org/~shadow On 7/14/20 2:47 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 21:38:05 +0200 > "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@...klimov.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@...klimov.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@...entia.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? I'm not going to be much help here: I like either of Jon's suggestions better than just deleting that line. -- ~Randy
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