Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > A word of caution to people who take it upon themselves to write docs: > > When you don't feel like maintaining the material any longer, > *PLEASE* have the decency to remove it from the net, unless of > course you can arrange for somebody else to update your baby and > keep it up to date and useful. > > Otherwise you will find that something you wrote and may very well > have been valid and useful at the time turns into a real pain for > others.
I fear that's an unrealistic goal, nice as it might be. :-) For starters, authors don't necessarily have control over every copy of their work on the web. Anyway, some people are actually interested in the history also. Personally, I'd be ecstatic if authors of such material would simply make clear what version(s) they were discussing, as appropriate, and when the material was written and last updated. --Jon Radel [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/x-pkcs7-signature which had a name of smime.p7s]
