[WikiEN-l] Re: Merry Christmas from Daniel Brandt (David Gerard)

Fri Dec 30 20:08:29 UTC 2005

MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:

>Some sites get taken down because people fail to pay their fees or
>simply because they break. In such cases it's good to have a
>independant place be a back up.
>  
>
That's perhaps the single biggest reason behind the ephemeral nature of 
internet sources as references.  Without the confidence that our passive 
users can verify our sources we can't effectively use them for fact 
checking.

Ec