documentation: reply-to munging "useful" link now points to a spam domain

Bug #1518084 reported by Sander
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GNU Mailman
Fix Released
Medium
Mark Sapiro

Bug Description

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mailman-coders/mailman/2.1/annotate/head:/doc/mailman-admin/node11.html line 86 includes a link, "Reply-To Munging Considered Useful", pointing to metasystema.org/essays/reply-to-useful.mhtml
archive.org shows this document disappeared sometime between late 2013 and mid-2014, and if it's currently visited, your browser gets redirected through a large number of what I can only assume to be spam domains.

I don't know if there's any policy for what to do with dead links in documentation, but a faithful reproduction of the document seems to live on http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/reply-to-useful.html (unchanged for the last 11 years based on a swift visual inspection via archive.org), so updating the link to point there seems to make sense.

Revision history for this message
Mark Sapiro (msapiro) wrote :

The source for all these documents is the branch at <https://launchpad.net/mailman-administrivia/>. This particular issue was fixed in rev 117 of that branch on 2 March 2015. Unfortunately, the process of rebuilding the docs from the .tex source following that change appears to have been overlooked.

Thanks for your report.

I will fix it.

Changed in mailman:
assignee: nobody → Mark Sapiro (msapiro)
importance: Undecided → Medium
milestone: none → 2.1.21
status: New → In Progress
Mark Sapiro (msapiro)
Changed in mailman:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Mark Sapiro (msapiro)
Changed in mailman:
milestone: 2.1.21 → 2.1.21rc1
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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