Hi, Op 9 dec. 2013, om 23:54 heeft Nick Hilliard <nick@inex.ie> het volgende geschreven:
On 09/12/2013 22:20, Sander Steffann wrote:
can the NCC please make sure that links to mailing list archives are never broken? There are too many external references to them
reality check: "never" is a long time and the ripe web site is labyrinthine.
True
Creating a requirement never to break URLs sounds like a great idea until you realise how much work is required to implement it, and how restrictive it can become. It's usually better to depend on an up-to-date search mechanism.
I prefer URLs to crucial stuff like mailing list archives and RIPE documents to be stable. Of course, _never_ may be the wrong requirement, but breaking such URLs should be done consciously, if/when it happens. In this case it seems to be a different mistake anyway, but this is a good thing to keep in mind for the future :-) Cheers! Sander