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RE: Acronym definition bad link
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Dave Korn <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:21:44 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: RE: Acronym definition bad link
- References: <029901c6f378$c7c724e0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 18 October 2006 21:23, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 08:25:40PM -0700, Johnathon Jamison wrote:
> >> In the http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TANSTAAFL definition,
> >> http://billdennis.net/heinlein/tanstaafl.htm is a bad link now; it
> >> points to an ad site.
>
> * acronyms/index.html (TANSTAAFL): Point to wikipedia instead of
> dead billdennis.net domain.
Dave,
Thanks for the patch, but I found the wikipedia article rather dry and
unappetizing. The Bill Dennis essay I used to point to was much better.
I'm going to look for another good TANSTAAFL essay -- in the meantime,
I've redirected the link to the Internet Archive snapshot of the essay.
Igor
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