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lost links web sites copyrights

Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 12:42:46 -0500
From: Tony Lawrence <tony@aplawrence.com>
Subject: Re: NewsGroup

Bill Vermillion wrote:

> In article <3C363753.3030503@aplawrence.com>,
> Tony Lawrence  <tony@aplawrence.com> wrote:

>>OTOH, stupid web masters do arbitrarily change links. I don't (and
>>won't ) do that, but sometime, despite my best efforts to remain
>>forever, I'm going to abandon my web site willingly or unwillingly,
>>and thousands of links will suddenly disappear. I do feel some
>>responsibility for that, so I have made posthumous arrangements to
>>try to find someone to take it over, but who knows if that will
>>happen.
>>
> 
> Taking it over in case you abandon it, for whatever reason, would
> be a problem.  It's the old single library.  And if you follow
> history you see what happens when libraries burn - many volumes
> were the only copies and never to be seen again.  There have been
> politically motivate destructions of libraries in the course of
> recorded history, and then there are the major accidents.  The last
> one I recall was somewhere about 10 years ago when the state ??
> library burned in Moscow, Russia.  Just part of the library but the
> count was probably over 100,000 volumes - and many were the only
> copy that existed in the world.


Ayup.  You may not have noticed, but I used to put a copyright notice at the 
bottom of everything I write (on my site, no need for it here) that does 
everything but beg people to copy it.  Dissemination of information is 
important.  I encouraged people to take anything I wrote (but not things 
written by other people that happen to be on the site) and print it, put 
it on their own web pages, publish it electronically or traditionally or 
whatever they want- as long as they give credit where it belongs.

I later changed that policy because people abused it and it was causing 
me to lose serious revenues.

> 
> As to the possibility of broken links, look at all the furor on this
> newsgroup just in the past couple of months when Caldera took over
> all the old SCO resources. You had links, Jeff had links/tool, and
> others had links. Nothing worked.


Yes, But that was unbelieavable stupidity on their part.  Many of my 
links still don't work.  It's a tremendous effort to fix them..

  


-- 
Tony Lawrence
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