Subject: Re: bug#33393: [gnu.org #1336696] 404 link

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 11:55:34 -0500

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> I was actually about to suggest something easier: point the readers to
> an address that will never change, such as this:
>
>    https://shop.fsf.org/collection/books-docs

Are you sure about "never"? :)

> Of course, if we can arrange for a more focused URL that won't be
> invalidated by bitrot, that would be better. 

Emacs can change to any URL for the future, but the old URL is used in
past releases and their announcements, so it would be simplest if it
comes back. It ought to be trivial for the FSF store to set up a
redirect. I will do that today.