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[rhkramer at gmail.com]

On Thursday, December 05, 2024 03:37:31 PM Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> In my opinion once a page exists it needs to exist forever.

+1

> Imagine Okular goes unmaintained, I don't want the lots of pages pointing
> to https://apps.kde.org/okular/ to suddenly point to a 404
> 
> I want to see a page that says "This is unmaintained" but still has the old
> contents.

+1 or in some (non-KDE contexts) a note abouit why the page might have been 
removed, e.g., removed for illegal content (for some definition of illegal, and 
maybe a word about what kind of illegal content) -- e.g., "page had 
instructions on building your own fusion bomb"

-- 
rhk

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Writing is often meant for others to read and understand (legal documents 
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liberal use of whitespace (short paragraphs, separated by whitespace / blank 
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references.

If someone has already responded to a question, decide whether any response 
you add will be helpful or not ...

A picture is worth a thousand words.  A video (or "audio"): not so much -- 
divide by 10 for each minute of video (or audio) or create a transcript and 
edit it to 10% of the original.  (Remember Cicero who did not have enough time 
to write a short missive.)

A speaker who uses ahhs, ums, or such may have a real physical or mental 
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A radio (or TV) station which broadcasts speakers with high pitched voices (or 
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speakers using their native language (with or without an overdubbed 
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