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080717 Josh Saddler wrote: |
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> Philip Webb wrote: |
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>> There remains an error in the IBM page above & the Gentoo doc version, |
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>> ie the URL given for 'Gentoo Technologies Inc' is 'www.gentoo.org'. |
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>> Whether the author still maintains GTI in New Mexico isn't clear |
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>> (there's another 'GTI' in Blacksburg VA , which makes databases etc), |
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>> but even if so, its Internet site is not the same as Gentoo Foundation's: |
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>> this needs to be corrected by the maintainer of Gentoo docs & by IBM. |
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>> One would also assume that the author has a more direct e-address |
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>> than the forwarding address at Gentoo still given in the article |
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>> & the personal details seem to be 8 years old (eg "new baby"): |
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>> those also would better be updated or deleted. |
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>> In contrast with traditional printed media -- press or advertising -- |
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>> the Internet is often less precise & therefore can be seriously |
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>> misleading: there is a lot of out-of-date information lying around |
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>> & no-one to take responsibility for it. |
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> these articles are snapshots of how things used to be. |
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> We don't need to wipe out everything that's old, do we? |
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> Why not leave the information there so people can get some history? |
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Neither an e-mail address nor an Internet URL is "some history": |
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they are a means of contacting a person & a link to a site |
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& as such they should be upto-date or deleted. |
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> What if people don't want more recent information shared |
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> and don't want a new email for all to see? |
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In that case, as I said in my previous message, they should be deleted. |
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> Seriously, nothing needs to be done on the IBM side, nor on ours. |
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> It's not an issue. please just let it go. |
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Well, I have much more important things to do today (smile), |
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but you are missing the point. Any newspaper or magazine editor knows |
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that when they reprint an article, some details may need updating |
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or at least a clear disclaimer needs adding to warn readers |
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that "This article was first published in 2000 & is reprinted as was". |
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In the current case neither IBM nor Gentoo docs has done either. |
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