[PW] General request (was Whatever happended to the Stumpers archive?)

[Hilary Caws-Elwitt]

Denise Montgomery wrote:
> One other thing to consider: when I was cleaning out my online files a
> couple years ago,
> I deleted a bunch of saved Stumpers messages because the links given in the
> messages no longer worked, and in almost all cases the sites referred to
> could no longer be found in searching Google or Yahoo. So unless the link
> still worked, or unless it referred to a print resource--which will last as
> long as the paper exists in some library--I deleted it because it was
> useless.
>   
This prompts me to request that we all, whenever feasible, give the gist of the 
clue/answer we found, not just the link. Sure, it's faster to just copy&paste 
the link, but think of posterity! :*)

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