[bug #60305] chem(1) still links to long-gone http://cm.bell-labs.com/

[Dave]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #60305 (project groff):

[comment #4 comment #4:]
> That's an incredibly unlikely scenario

Yes, it is, but over the decades we've seen enough real-world failures of
too-big-to-fail organizations to hopefully keep us from taking for granted
things that today seem solidly permanent.

> it's trivial to redirect incoming requests from one URL scheme to another.

It is -- and yet plenty of high-profile sites fail to do this in the wake of a
site-wide reorg.  One would hope archive.org's webmasters have a keener sense
of the importance of this than most, but again, every once in a while one's
hopes are dashed.

In any case, this entire discussion is speculation concerning the source of
Branden's vague unease, so I'm gonna bow out and let Branden address whether
it's remotely on the mark, if he so chooses.

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