Re: [wmii] Fwd: [wmii-hackers] suckless.org - new primary domain, wmii.de, wmii.net, shortest.de and 10kloc.org going to be dropped

From: Anselm R. Garbe <arg_AT_suckless.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:53:58 +0200

On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 08:47:49AM +0200, csant wrote:
> >On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 07:15:14PM +0200, Uriel wrote:
> >>Oh, and forgot to mention all the broken mail sorting rules, email
> >>accounts, etc, etc, etc.
> >
> >You are too pessimistic. If you'd invest the time you complain
> >about the situation into being productive and updating existing
> >links which haven't been updated yet
>
> The problem aren't the links he or you can update - it's more all those
> online articles/reviews/whatnot that certainly will not be updated. A
> typical user reads something, wants to check it out, gets a broken link,
> thinks "oh well, another dead project". Few will think "and yet - I will
> find it!" and start googling.

For those cases I can agree, but those who are really interested
will google or visit freshmeat. I doubt that most will think
"another dead project" without googling...

Regards,

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