X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:21:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Dave Korn cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Acronym definition bad link In-Reply-To: <029901c6f378$c7c724e0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Message-ID: References: <029901c6f378$c7c724e0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-ID: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.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 -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/