There's a rather simple solution to that: stipulate that any link in commit messages must be first saved on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. That is as easy as pasting the original URL into a text field in this page and clicking the "Save Page Now" button:
2017-08-14 21:44 GMT-03:00 ron minnich rminnich@gmail.com:
This is an interesting headline:
"I Bought a Book About the Internet From 1994 and None of the Links Worked"
What's interesting? That's only 5 years before linuxbios started. I can make the totally unwarranted claim that the half life of a link is around 12 years. I justify this claim with one bogus data point, namely, this headline :-)
But still, what's amazing is when I did a check, about 15 years after linuxbios began, about 25% of the links were in fact dead. So the 12 year number may not be great, but ... maybe it's not that bad either.
And now you know why I don't like links in commit messages :-)
ron
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