[thechat] LA Times and dying urls

[Madhu Menon]

At 01:40 AM 10/17/2001, you wrote:
>I also hate that many of the yahoo newsfeeds eventually linkrot as well
>- I always try to look for a permanent url for stuff when I blog,
>because darnit, urls should live forever!

There are good reasons for this sometimes. If you're licensing content from 
others, there may a restriction on its use.
When I worked with CNET India, for example, we would license certain 
content from newspapers under the terms that we would not "archive" it. 
This meant that we had to get rid of the stories after a certain period of 
time (anywhere from 1 day to 1 week).

Other sites that license newsfeeds from places like Reuters also probably 
have the same restrictions.

And yes, ideally URLs should live forever. I know Nielsen has said it, and 
I think Tim Berners-Lee said it somewhere too.

Regards,

Madhu

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