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Philip Webb wrote: |
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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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Daniel Robbins founded Gentoo. His mail is still valid and will remain so. |
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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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Do you happen to know of any Internet news portal that adds a note "hey |
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Philip, this article is older than two days, it might not be accurate |
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anymore"? |
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Anyway, perhaps you should read the articles more carefully: |
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"Disclaimer : The original version of this article was first published |
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on IBM developerWorks, and is property of Westtech Information Services. |
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This document is an updated version of the original article, and |
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contains various improvements made by the Gentoo Linux Documentation team. |
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This document is not actively maintained." [1] |
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"01 Dec 2000 Updated 03 Jul 2008" [2] |
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*Nothing* needs changing. |
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Better stick to the more important things. |
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Cheers, |
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-jkt |
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/l-awk1.xml |
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[2] http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-awk1.html |
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