From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 15 08:59:51 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 1CED816A4CE; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 08:59:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de (ms-2.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7E0C43D2D; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 08:59:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@unixpages.org) Received: from r220-1 (r220-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.31]) by ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.12 (built Feb 13 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HPY00EDY4960X@ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de>; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 17:53:30 +0100 (MET) Received: from relay.RWTH-Aachen.DE ([134.130.3.1]) by r220-1 (MailMonitor for SMTP v1.2.2 ) ; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 17:53:29 +0100 (MET) Received: from haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (postfix@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.181.92]) hBFGrTsU000942; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 17:53:29 +0100 (MET) Received: from gondor.middleearth (gondor.middleearth [192.168.1.42]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Postfix) with ESMTP id 875301D; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 17:53:29 +0100 (CET) Received: by gondor.middleearth (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 5BCDF4657; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 17:53:28 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 17:53:27 +0100 From: Christian Brueffer In-reply-to: <20031215105404.7be1a11c.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: Tom Rhodes Message-id: <20031215165327.GE34524@unixpages.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/signed; boundary=nHwqXXcoX0o6fKCv; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.2-BETA X-PGP-Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D References: <20031214122749.GC340@submonkey.net> <20031214203237.GT20535@unixpages.org> <20031215105404.7be1a11c.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> 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 16:59:51 -0000 --nHwqXXcoX0o6fKCv Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 10:54:04AM -0500, Tom Rhodes wrote: > On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 21:32:37 +0100 > Christian Brueffer wrote: >=20 > > 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 & Informati= on > > > > 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 our= s, > > > > for the period of December 1-7, 2003: > > > >=20 > > > > Target site (broken link): > > > > /news/gigabytes/index.html > > > >=20 > > > > The broken link(s) are on this page: > > > > http://www.pl.freebsd.org/news/press.html=20 > > >=20 > > > All, > > >=20 > > > 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. > > >=20 > > > 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 s= ay > > > "yes", and just remove the links on dead stories that can't be found. > > >=20 > >=20 > > 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? >=20 > That would be a big job (asking different 'news' websites if we > could mirror their stories which are FreeBSD specific) ... >=20 Yes, it's probably worth the hassle. Especially considering that the available docs and web pages are work anough. - Christian --=20 Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D --nHwqXXcoX0o6fKCv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/3ecHbHYXjKDtmC0RAitkAKDE/bkykW7ynTJfhW9RJs9n63Zw1wCaAvgk ED/xdXDDobdSpXZDwQ9B4xs= =CriQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nHwqXXcoX0o6fKCv--