Website errors

[Christian Brueffer]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 10:54:04AM -0500, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 21:32:37 +0100
> Christian Brueffer <chris at 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) ...
> 

Yes, it's probably worth the hassle.  Especially considering that the
available docs and web pages are work anough.

- Christian

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