[Theforum] my missing content

[Dean Mah]

On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 07:45:37PM +0100, William Anderson wrote:

> > > > 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 ...


Ah, sorry.  I misunderstood what you were getting at.  That sounds
good to me.

Dean