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Re: demise of sun.com

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On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 08:27:44 -0700, Roedy Green
<see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote:

>On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 00:54:47 -0700, Roedy Green
><see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
>someone who said :
>
>>Oracle has dropped dozens of links on sun.com without providing
>>redirects to oracle.com. I am doing my best to find replacements, but
>>I suspect a fair bit of material is going to disappear.
>
>all these links now just go to a generic Java page:

-snip-

>It is a common thing for a webmaster to reorganise a website. The
>catch is the links into that website then stop working.  Ideally the
>webmaster should set  up permanent redirects from the old URL to the
>new to inform everyone of where their old pages went and to keep the
>old links working.  However, companies such as Oracle do not do this.
>They prefer to force the hundreds of websites that link into them to
>individually research the links with Google to  find the new ones or
>delete them.  Obviously the total amount of work is thousands of times
>greater, but they don't care. It is not them doing the work, it is the
>companies who send them  business. Mindless next-quarter capitalism
>demands this sort of behaviour.

This is particularly annoying when you search for a problem and find a
'solution' in a forum, which is just a link to a now nonexistent web
page.
-- 
(\__/)  M.
(='.'=) If a man stands in a forest and no woman is around
(")_(") is he still wrong?

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demise of sun.com Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-09-15 00:54 -0700
  Re: demise of sun.com Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-09-15 08:27 -0700
    Re: demise of sun.com Mark <i@dontgetlotsofspamanymore.invalid> - 2012-09-17 10:28 +0100
      Re: demise of sun.com "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-09-17 06:51 -0400
        Re: demise of sun.com Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-09-17 10:40 -0700
          Re: demise of sun.com Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-09-17 17:39 -0400
    Re: demise of sun.com Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-09-18 04:27 -0700
      Re: demise of sun.com Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-09-18 19:41 +0000
        Re: demise of sun.com Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-09-18 13:21 -0700
          Re: demise of sun.com Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-09-18 21:29 +0000
          Re: demise of sun.com Gunter Herrmann <notformail0106@earthlink.net> - 2012-09-19 13:30 -0400
      Re: demise of sun.com Stanimir Stamenkov <s7an10@netscape.net> - 2012-09-19 00:42 +0300

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