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From:   Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
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On Tue, 14 Jul 2020, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> >  N: Derrick J. Brashear
> >  E: shadow@dementia.org
> > -W: http://www.dementia.org/~shadow

That particular entry moved to:

 W: http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~shadow/

(The https version only supports TLSv1, and Firefox balks)

Otherwise, what Jon said:

> So thanks for addressing these.  That said, I do wonder if this is quite
> the right thing to do.  I'm assuming that the old sites still exist in the
> wayback machine somewhere, and somebody might actually want to find them.
> Pity the poor anthropologist researching the origins of the the
> billion-line, free-software kernels widely used in the 2500's...
> 
> So maybe we should either mark it as "[BROKEN]" or make a direct link into
> the wayback machine instead?  That would enable the suitably motivated to
> go after the content that once existed.

As an innocent bystander, I'd opt for [BROKEN] tags, or Wayback machine 
substitutes, instead of just removing those entries.

My 2 cents,
Christian.
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