Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 10:54:04 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> Cc: www@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Website errors Message-ID: <20031215105404.7be1a11c.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20031214203237.GT20535@unixpages.org> References: <sfd85ce8.097@apcis7.tamu.edu> <20031214122749.GC340@submonkey.net> <20031214203237.GT20535@unixpages.org>
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On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 21:32:37 +0100 Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 12:27:49PM +0000, Ceri Davies wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 12:01:46PM -0600, Sarah Berry wrote: > > > Howdy! My name is Sarah Berry, and I work for Computing & Information > > > Services at A&M. Part of my job involves maintaining our websites. In > > > looking through our server logs, I noticed the following errors > > > generated when someone tried to follow a link from your site to ours, > > > for the period of December 1-7, 2003: > > > > > > Target site (broken link): > > > /news/gigabytes/index.html > > > > > > The broken link(s) are on this page: > > > http://www.pl.freebsd.org/news/press.html > > > > All, > > > > This link is in the June 1999 entry, for jkh on the GigABytes Radio > > show. As stated at > > http://itim.tamu.edu/htmlfs/changes/gigabyte092002.shtml, the content > > for this is now long deleted from the web server. > > > > This raises the question: what we do with broken links here? > > They're clearly no use pointing to non-existent pages, but is an entry > > in here worth having if there's nothing to link to? I'm tempted to say > > "yes", and just remove the links on dead stories that can't be found. > > > > What about our news archive on freefall. Would it be possible to link > against the archived versions of the pages? Do publishers usually allow > this, when one asks? That would be a big job (asking different 'news' websites if we could mirror their stories which are FreeBSD specific) ... > > If this is not a viable option, I'd vote for replacing the link with a > note that the page in question is not available anymore. I'm up for this, albeit similar to Josef's comment; leave the content, remove the link, add this note. -- Tom Rhodes
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