Philip Webb wrote:
> Neither an e-mail address nor an Internet URL is "some history":
> they are a means of contacting a person & a link to a site
> & as such they should be upto-date or deleted.

Daniel Robbins founded Gentoo. His mail is still valid and will remain so.

> but you are missing the point.  Any newspaper or magazine editor knows
> that when they reprint an article, some details may need updating
> or at least a clear disclaimer needs adding to warn readers
> that "This article was first published in 2000 & is reprinted as was".
> In the current case neither IBM nor Gentoo docs has done either.

Do you happen to know of any Internet news portal that adds a note "hey
Philip, this article is older than two days, it might not be accurate
anymore"?

Anyway, perhaps you should read the articles more carefully:

"Disclaimer :  The original version of this article was first published
on IBM developerWorks, and is property of Westtech Information Services.
This document is an updated version of the original article, and
contains various improvements made by the Gentoo Linux Documentation team.
This document is not actively maintained." [1]

"01 Dec 2000 Updated 03 Jul 2008" [2]

*Nothing* needs changing.

Better stick to the more important things.

Cheers,
-jkt

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/l-awk1.xml
[2] http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-awk1.html
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