2009/3/16 Andre Engels andreengels@gmail.com:
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 1:59 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Indeed. The claim is meaningless and querulous noise. Printed objects commonly have a URL on them these days. Listing a source or history short URL would do the job it's intended to.
True, but those are not URLs that contain information that they are contractually obliged to provide to you together with the object.
You have failed to establish how that makes any difference - it doesn't. The reason for it being there makes no difference as to whether people know what a URL is when they see it in print.
- d.