[ih] Link rot (was: Museum archiving (was: Re: IENs))

[Dave Crocker]

> actually, even traditional citations aren't much help.   if a paper cites
> something like "annals of esoterica, june 1939" that strikes me as not
> much help. and even if you somehow learned that there was a copy
> of that journal, but it was in a library in serbo-Croatia
> {that may or may not still exist - the real world analogue of link rot} 
> what
> help is that.

Name, address, route.  Someone should write something about the 
distinction, since we seem to keep getting them confused.

d/

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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net