[Vim-l] Tips relying on external sites

[John Beckett]

hermitte wrote:
> Well, I wasn't much concerned about my site. Yesterday night, 
> I was in search of examples. A better one is Dr Chip's site. 
> It has been around for ages, which does not mean it will be 
> here forever. See Sven Guckes' example: he had a wonderful 
> site for vim users, but he did decide to close it.

I interpreted your first post as saying that it was no problem for tips to have
links to worthwhile sites. I was just trying to agree, and I certainly was not
trying to hint that your concern was to do with your site.

Re Dr Chip's site: I have already gone to quite a lot of trouble to update around a
dozen of his obsolete URLs (his site changed some time ago, and we had many broken
links that I think I have fixed). So we should be in total agreement that external
links to well-known sites of interest to Vim users are no problem. Other external
links may also be ok, but they would need case-by-case consideration IMHO. If links
break, we'll have to fix them. Therefore we shouldn't go crazy by creating lots of
links, but a few worthwhile links are great.

John