On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 00:45:24 +0100, Pawe³ 'Ausir' Dembowski wrote:
Doesn't a
web.archive.org link contain within it the URL of the
original source?
It does.
However, that may not be transparent to an inexperienced user who finds that the link is
dead, which is the reason for not replacing the original. Of course, even as I type this,
I realise that the user who cannot recognise the URL within the link is probably too
unsophisticated to find an alternative archive.
Theo