Future of cctalk/cctech

Toby Thain toby at telegraphics.com.au
Fri Jun 19 22:46:13 CDT 2020


On 2020-06-19 11:27 p.m., Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
> 
>> Images take up a lot of space and are best dealt with via links. 
> 
> Which rot over time.
> 
> If you're going to create a permanent archive, you need to archive any
> attachments as well.
> 
> http://www.vcfed.org/forum is a perfect example of messages full of link
> rot.
> 

Yes, we could have learned from the fact that Photobucket and dozens of
other image hosting services chosen arbitrarily by users have
disappeared, leaving forums full of posts without context, often making
them useless.

--Toby


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