[Theforum] my missing content

[William Anderson]

---- Original Message ----
From: "Dean Mah" <dmah at members.evolt.org>
To: <theforum at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 7:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Theforum] my missing content

> On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 07:17:07PM +0100, William Anderson wrote:
> > ---- Original Message ----
> > From: "Dean Mah" <dmah at members.evolt.org>
> > To: <theforum at lists.evolt.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 4:16 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Theforum] my missing content
> >
> > > On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 03:22:41PM +0100, John Handelaar wrote:
> > >
> > > > Or are we going to be one of those fuckwit orgs which allows its
> > > > links to rot?  That'd be a great move.  "Web professionals, my
> > > > arse."  I can hear the echoes already.
> > >
> > > Along with moving articles into an "archived" state, I would
> > > suggest "fixing" broken links with a "[this link no longer
> > > available]" and/or a disclaimer that archived articles are there
> > > for mainly historical reasons and that not all links may work.
> > > Also, I would be willing to try to track down alternative links
> > > to the broken ones.
> >
> > If I have to scream archive.org again, I'll go hoarse :(
>
> I would suspect that the goal is to keep people at the evolt.org site
> rather than going elsewhere.  At least that's my goal.

Erm, if they clicked on a *working* link, they'd be leaving evolt.org
*anyway* - what's the issue here?  Simply bung http://web.archive.org/*/ on
the front of any non-functional URL, and we're golden ...

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