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On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Tom Fifield <tom at openstack.org> wrote:

> On 01/08/14 07:22, Tom Fifield wrote:
>
>> On 30/07/14 22:36, Anne Gentle wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 1:41 AM, Christian Berendt
>>> <berendt at b1-systems.de <mailto:berendt at b1-systems.de>> wrote:
>>>
>>>      On 07/30/2014 07:52 AM, Tom Fifield wrote:
>>>      > Please assign any broken link bugs for the opsgui.de
>>>      <http://opsgui.de> URLs to Anne or
>>>      > myself, and we can easily fix them on bit.ly <http://bit.ly>. If
>>>      anyone else is
>>>      > interested in having access to change these URLs - please let me
>>> know.
>>>
>>>      Ok. I'll open a bugreport with all broken URLs.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for finding these Christian!
>>>
>>> I do agree the maintenance is a bit tougher with shortened... we wanted
>>> to try it for readability and I think it works nicely. But we learn as
>>> we go.
>>>
>>> If anyone has great ideas for grouping those shortened URLs or otherwise
>>> making something cool with them, I'd love to get more mileage out of
>>> those.
>>>
>>
>> I may have been misled on the capabilities here.
>>
>> A beverage of your choice if you can find a way to update a link target
>> in bit.ly - I couldn't find how to do it yesterday.
>>
>
> Anyone?
>
>
Nope, just went through all the API docs too and it appears they only
shorten long URLs and don't think of it as a pointer service.


> If bit.ly URLs can't be updated, we should remove them as per Christian's
> plan, and also submit errata to the OReilly book page.
>
>
Or, create a new short URL pointing to the correct long URL. But I don't
think that's what we want.

Really, for printed books, it's better to do the footnote as mentioned in
the other thread. I'll reply there too.


>
> Regards,
>
> Tom
>
>
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