Broken link patrol

February 20, 2009 2:18 PM

James Joyce's dirty letters were discussed a long time ago...

...and the link to the letters in that thread is broken. Someone linked me to an intact instance of the letters and I was contemplating an FPP.

So, the question is, is it kosher to make a new FPP linking to what is presumably the same content in a new home, especially given the age of the original thread?

If not, I guess people looking for dirty letters from James Joyce will have to find them through MeTa.

posted by silby to Etiquette/Policy at 2:18 PM (9 comments total)

A post five years later even to the same content is likely to be okay, esp if you bring something new to the post. Generally speaking though, just updating a post with a new link to the same content isn't likely to otherwise clear the double post guidelines. Does that make sense?
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 2:30 PM on February 20, 2009

"I don't know whether my husband is a genius or not, but he certainly has a dirty mind."--Nora Barnacle
posted by box at 2:30 PM on February 20, 2009

Get away from me, James Joyce!
posted by Metroid Baby at 2:34 PM on February 20, 2009 [8 favorites]

Perhaps you should include links to LOTS of dirty things.
Like The Dirty Boogie by the BSO (Brian Setzer Orchestra)
posted by longsleeves at 2:43 PM on February 20, 2009

Hey Metroid Baby, fuck you. You just caused my crush on Kate Beaton, which was already huge, to multiply like 500 times over, because now I know that not only is she brilliant and hilarious, she's also super cute. Never mind the fact that I would have seen that entry in the near future anyway, I'm laying the blame squarely on you.
posted by Caduceus at 3:35 PM on February 20, 2009

That was uncalled for, I apologize Metroid Baby. It's just that I'm now going to waste away in longing forever more now, and I was upset by that knowledge. I shouldn't have lashed out at you.
posted by Caduceus at 3:37 PM on February 20, 2009

Kate Beaton is the shit.
posted by Pope Guilty at 9:36 PM on February 20, 2009

Wow. Hadn't seen these before, and my reaction is quite similar to Kate Beaton's, I must say.

Which is the only thing I have in common with her, unfortunately.
posted by Phire at 9:52 AM on February 21, 2009

"you are always my beautiful wild flower of the hedges, my dark-blue rain-drenched flower"

Creepy bastard!
posted by scody at 10:41 AM on February 21, 2009