From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 15 07:54:14 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 015B916A4CE; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 07:54:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from pittgoth.com (14.zlnp1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.149.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54C2143D35; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 07:54:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (acs-24-154-239-203.zoominternet.net [24.154.239.203]) by pittgoth.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id hBFFs8aJ041298; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 10:54:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 10:54:04 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes To: Christian Brueffer Message-Id: <20031215105404.7be1a11c.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20031214203237.GT20535@unixpages.org> References: <20031214122749.GC340@submonkey.net> <20031214203237.GT20535@unixpages.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.6claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Ceri Davies cc: www@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Website errors X-BeenThere: freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Project Webmasters List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 15:54:14 -0000 On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 21:32:37 +0100 Christian Brueffer 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