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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:57:46 +0200
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Frank, Andrey,

For something like two months now, the remotesensing server is more down then
up, or so it seems. Please note that this doesn't just cripple any effort to
ensure some visibility of remotesensing/libtiff, doesn't just make it hard
to persuade people to link to remotesensing/libtiff instead of libtiff.org, but
also damages anyone who has already been kind enough to update his links to
point to the remotesensing domain. Google actually considers
remotesensing/libtiff to be dead, now, and considers our pages to contain dead
links!

In a world with many millions of web pages, whatever cannot be found does not
actually exist, for all practical purposes. That is why you should make sure
that remotesensing/libtiff is amongst the very first search result returned when
Google is queried for 'libtiff'. Instead, it is currently not returned at all.
There's approx 149.000 search results for 'libtiff', and remotesensing/libtiff
is not amongst them. Worst case scenario, it may take up to two months before
remotesensing/libtiff is again returned in a remotely noticable position, *if*
remotesensing server is up all the time.


Chris or anyone concerned,

I see http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/tiff/index.jsp still refers to
tiff-request@sgi.com. The proper place to point to is the LibTiff homepage at
http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/, instead. This particular Adobe page is
probably the single most important TIFF page around. It has PageRank 8, which
beats even libtiff.org. A good pointer, on that page, may be a small step for
Adobe, but it's a giant gift for the legit LibTiff domain. I mentioned this
before, and added that I wouldn't mind a pointer to the archive on that page,
either. Being a bit of a nag now, chances for a pointer to the archive are
probably decreasing. But Adobe probably does want to consider at least linking
to remotesensing/libtiff, on that page, instead of presenting the 'Adobe
partners' with only a pointer that hasn't been valid for years.



Joris Van Damme
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