[766] in IS Home Pages
Re: Cannot find something in the IS web pages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robyn Fizz)
Wed Sep 22 12:07:51 1999
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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 12:07:42 -0400
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From: Robyn Fizz <fizz@MIT.EDU>
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Hi Chris,
We discussed the issue of "obsolete" documents in a Pubs group meeting and
reached this approach by consensus. Note that we say "This document is
obsolete because the product or service is no longer supported by IS, or
the information is otherwise out of date and will not be revised."
We believe that very few clients will be looking for this information, and
that keeping old documents in the Pubs list clutters it and may confuse
clients using recommended products.
Robyn
>** What were you looking for?
>MacTCP setup instructions for connecting an older Mac to MITnet
>
>** Where did you expect to find it?
>Off the pubs page:
>http://web.mit.edu/is/pubs/
>
>** Comments:
>I found it with UltraSeek:
>http://web.mit.edu/is/pubs/ns-40/
>
>It's misleadingly labelled as 'obsolete'. Sure, it runs on Macs that are
>considered obsolete. But the info itself is correct. Btw, I went looking
>for it because a Help Desk client couldn't find it. So it should probably
>be made available again, but with an appropriate disclaimer (e.g. "These
>instructions are not suitable for most recent Macintosh computers, which
>use Open Transport instead. See this URL:....")
>
Robyn Fizz
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