Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 20:05:44 +0100 From: Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> To: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@freebsd.org> Cc: www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Website errors Message-ID: <20031215190544.GF34524@unixpages.org> In-Reply-To: <20031215165327.GE34524@unixpages.org> References: <sfd85ce8.097@apcis7.tamu.edu> <20031214122749.GC340@submonkey.net> <20031214203237.GT20535@unixpages.org> <20031215105404.7be1a11c.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> <20031215165327.GE34524@unixpages.org>
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--qftxBdZWiueWNAVY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 05:53:27PM +0100, Christian Brueffer wrote: > 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@unixpages.org> 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 & Informa= tion > > > > > 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 o= urs, > > > > > 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 conte= nt > > > > 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 en= try > > > > 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 foun= d. > > > >=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 al= low > > > 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 >=20 > Yes, it's probably worth the hassle. Especially considering that the ~~~~~~~ not! > available docs and web pages are work anough. >=20 Funny how one missing word can alter the meaning of a sentence :-) - 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 --qftxBdZWiueWNAVY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/3gYIbHYXjKDtmC0RAvwaAJ4gQvRKPI0qSE57plwwaWORHO5gcgCfXXf7 zePCmFwWMp+t7ZIzK6IhxbQ= =5Siy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qftxBdZWiueWNAVY--
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