[Theforum] my missing content

Dean Mah dmah at members.evolt.org
Sat Jul 20 12:24:01 CDT 2002


On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 09:34:14AM -0700, Joel Canfield wrote:

> [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ]
> > > 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.
> >
> > Dean
>
> Is there not an open source tool to do link checking ottermatticly? If links
> are fixable, we fix 'em. If not, we annotate. But finding 'em shouldn't be
> manual, right?

It's trivial to write a Perl script to do this.

Dean



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