[Info-vax] HPE OpenVMS "free" software download pages - CIFS, OpenSSL, etc

[Jon Pinkley]

On Thursday, February 7, 2019 at 1:52:01 PM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote:
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> 
> Changing the landing page is one thing. Changing all the direct links
> to point to the same generic index page is just idiotic.
> 
> At the very least, HPE could have done redirects from the old location
> to the new location for each of the manuals.
> 
> I don't know if Google will eventually pick up the new locations, and
> re-index the VMS manuals but at the moment most of the HPE VMS search
> results are gone and the ones which are remaining all go to this new
> generic index page.
> 
> 
> Simon.

I used to contribute to the HP ITRC OpenVMS forum, but when the ITRC was replaced by new forum software, they never converted the links to internal posts, so now many posts which answered questions with links to other related posts, now have only dead links, and the usefulness of the forums was greatly diminished.  I stopped posting after that.  I don't think I was the only one that stopped contributing at than time.