[bug #60305] chem(1) still links to long-gone http://cm.bell-labs.com/

[Dave]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #60305 (project groff):

[comment #1 comment #1:]
> Restore the links in Internet Archive form?  I have a vague
> unease with doing that but I can't quite articulate it.

This may or may not be related to your unease:

archive.org URLs that show these pages' original content are useful today. 
But tomorrow archive.org could cease to exist.  Or it could get reorganized in
a way that invalidates all current URLs pointing to it.  (This would be
somewhat ironic given the Internet Archive's mission, but irony happens.)  If
some form of an internet archive continues to exist, the original URL is a
more useful piece of information than the archive.org URL for finding a given
page in the new archive.  (In practice this is a minor concern, as the
original URL is embedded in the archive.org one.)

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