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I've donated to the Internet Archive and I'm a big fan of Jason Scott, but the Internet Archive is not an archive. Any site on it can go down without warning, thanks to the fact that they apply current robots.txt rules to past archives. Once a domain squatter or regretful admin forbids archivebot (or crawlers in general), archive.org's copy goes down.This has ruined many supposedly permanent links. The infamous "She's a Flight Risk" blog from a decade ago is down.[1] My first website is missing. Even public domain stuff like NASA's report on nuclear propulsion is gone.[2]With just a small rule change (obey robots.txt at the time of crawling), they could eliminate the risk of a page disappearing. Instead, we're stuck with a slower version of the link rot we're used to. It doesn't stop me from supporting them, but it's incredibly frustrating.1. https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.aflightrisk.blogspo...2. http://web.archive.org/web/20121029225832/http://ntrs.nasa.g...