Re: My book - Mailing list pgsql-www

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:39, Cédric Villemain
<cedric.villemain.debian@gmail.com> wrote:
> Le 27 janvier 2012 11:32, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> a écrit :
>> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Cédric Villemain
>> <cedric.villemain.debian@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Le 27 janvier 2012 10:35, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> a écrit :
>>>> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 05:02, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>>>>> It seems my book content, PostgreSQL: Introduction and Concepts, is no
>>>>> longer on your web site.  It is listed here near the bottom:
>>>>
>>>> (hey, it's your website too :P)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>        http://www.postgresql.org/docs/books/
>>>>>
>>>>> but the book content it points to is invalid:
>>>>>
>>>>>        http://www.postgresql.org/docs/books/awbook/
>>>>
>>>> Right. The contents were removed because it covered very old versions
>>>> of the db. We should obviously remove the link as well - I'll go do
>>>> that - while keeping the name itself. Or would you like us to link it
>>>> to somewhere else?
>>>
>>> It seems the recent changes in our infra are breaking URL .
>>> For me this is a very bad idea and most websites upgrade try to not
>>> break references to them.
>>> Breaking links is the garantee to make a lot of people unhappy. (both
>>> readers and writers)
>>
>> We didn't break any URLs intentionally (we went out of our way to
>> maintain the old ones in fact) - except where we removed out of date
>> content. Noone expects websites to maintain all their content
>> indefinitely.
>
> Don't read me wrong: I am speaking about URL, not page content.
>
> There is a hudge difference between:
> «The URL you specified does not exist.»
> and
> «This page was outdated and has been removed.»
>
> Not speaking in place of Bruce for his book, but here it is not very
> polite to let him discover that alone.

He was told before (of course), and has either forgotten, or his mail
was just in reference to the link on the books page that we forgot to
remove.

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