Re: [2.4 patch] NET_IPIP help: remove no longer available URL

[Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>]

On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 04:28, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > How about updating the URL instead:
> > 
> > http://web.archive.org/web/19990420203353/http://anchor.cs.binghamton.edu/~mobileip/LJ/index.html
> 
> This URL is too long for one line.

<nod> Good point, but trivially solved:  http://tinyurl.com/5sm9w

> Besides this, it's nearly 8 years old and therefore not in any respect 
> up-to-date

Just because it's old doesn't mean it's out of date. Have you read the
webpage in question? The majority of the page simply explains what
mobile-IP *is* on a primer level, and how it might be used. That hasn't
changed.

> (and if it's only in a web archive, it will never be updated).

That's a half-empty worldview. You should be saying "Yay! Since it's on
the wayback machine, the URL will always be good!"

If this is really a problem, we could create a WikiPedia entry for it.
However, the page is on the level of a long dictionary definition or an
encyclopedia entry, and so it's not much more out of date than most
RFCs, for example.

Ray