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Concerning external links, I'm surprised that big news sites don't seem to have stable links whereas tech sites like /. do. Go to Wikipedia, and follow a few referenced links to major news organization websites. You'll find many dead links. Given that they use complex, professional CMS solutions, I don't understand why they would break links. It's not like they cannot serve ads for old articles. Wired's old articles seem to be there but barely so with sometimes broken img links.

> If I get email related to my site, I often post it to the site.

But only after consent from your the sender, right?

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>I'm surprised that big news sites don't seem to have stable links

BBC is an exception to this - the way they publish their news pages means they have articles going back over a decade (with the original styling)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1537469.stm

I love how they show the whole page as it was on the day.

That's brilliant, and I wouldn't expect anything less from the BBC. They are technically competent and innovated in the broadcasting space, like a few other networks did/do. It surely helped that the BBC have (had?) an R&D department.

Just to be clear up front, my site is actively trying to be a demonstration of the ideas I outlined in the above post, in addition to being an actual site. It's still a work in progress and I'm letting it evolve piece by piece. There are many unanswered questions.

> But only after consent from your the sender, right?

I'm struggling to decide the right way to handle this. So far, if the message is substantial and I want to reply for follow-up, I also ask directly for permission. If it is a small message or I otherwise don't end up with consent, I'll remove any personally identifying information and/or paraphrase the message. You can see this in action at [0].

I'd love to know where most people think the proper line is. I usually consider direct email to be a rather private communication channel.

[0] https://www.gaxun.net/commentary/knuth-challenge/comments/

Have you ever maintained one of their CMS solutions? "Professional" has many meanings...

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