[Theforum] my missing content

[Dean Mah]

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.

Dean