Follow-up Comment #2, bug #60305 (project groff): > I already removed the URLs last September as commit 83326197dce94750d5cb71a4c84402bdb2f3b558.
Oops. I just noticed my earlier search for `cm.bell-labs.*` was matching stale artefacts built earlier last year. After running `make clean`, I can confirm the URLs are indeed, as you said, removed. :) Apologies for the noise... > Restore the links in Internet Archive form? I have a vague unease with doing that but I can't quite articulate it. It's probably because we've never done this before. Our usual fix for bit-rot is to cull dead links entirely -- but IMHO, deleting an obscure link of historical interest is worse than leaving broken links everywhere. Future users won't know that these sources ever existed; at least with a 404, readers know to consult the Wayback Machine for an archived version. I suggest we keep a link to the archived versions of these pages, but only in contexts where they're most relevant. E.g., the *SEE ALSO* section of chem(1), not comments in the headers of `contrib/chem/examples/122/*.chem`. > (At least breaking the URLs, as long as they are, won't be a problem. ;-) ) It's benign at the moment, but who knows if those links won't redirect to a product's landing-page sometime in the future. This is a pretty common practice for corporate sites that formerly hosted technical documentation (\*cough\*Apple\*cough\*). _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60305> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/