I don't understand. Are you talking about the people to whom the fic is recced, or people who are doing the reccing? Because if YOU are reccing a fic and have a copy on your HD, this solves your problem... if the fic is gone, you just email it out to people who are interested in seeing it.
If you are talking about being on the receiving end of a dead recommendation... well, we've all been there. I've never lost tears over the lost of a story I have never even read. It happens. I just move on to the next thing, no harm done.
I firmly believe that if you love a story enough that you think you will want to recommend it in the future, save it in your own personal archives. If you have the opportunity to buy a book before it goes out of print and don't do so, you have no one to blame but yourself if you go later to and find it's already been taken off the market. Similarly with fic. To read it means that it was available publicly at SOME TIME. If you assume that all archives except your own are unreliable, for many reasons (and yours will only be reliable if you back it up appropriately), then you will never lose fics. This I can promise you.
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Date: 2006-10-28 10:32 am (UTC)If you are talking about being on the receiving end of a dead recommendation... well, we've all been there. I've never lost tears over the lost of a story I have never even read. It happens. I just move on to the next thing, no harm done.
I firmly believe that if you love a story enough that you think you will want to recommend it in the future, save it in your own personal archives. If you have the opportunity to buy a book before it goes out of print and don't do so, you have no one to blame but yourself if you go later to and find it's already been taken off the market. Similarly with fic. To read it means that it was available publicly at SOME TIME. If you assume that all archives except your own are unreliable, for many reasons (and yours will only be reliable if you back it up appropriately), then you will never lose fics. This I can promise you.