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Date:      Wed, 11 Dec 2002 13:03:17 -0500
From:      "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org>
To:        bmah@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: duplicate pages 
Message-ID:  <3DF73795.26681.25B135DB@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <200212111800.gBBI0FTN042107@intruder.bmah.org>
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On 11 Dec 2002 at 10:00, Bruce A. Mah wrote:

> If memory serves me right, "Dan Langille" wrote:
> > FYI: the following URLs each appear to have the same content.
> > 
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x4587.html
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x4749.html
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x4750.html
> > 
> > Is this expected?
> 
> Hi Dan--
> 
> I'm going to guess that at least two of these files are from old
> versions of the handbook (maybe the content is the same, but they were
> generated a long time ago).  See here:
> 
> www:handbook% ls -ls x{4587,4749,4750}.html
>  6 -r--r--r--  1 www  www  4638 Oct  4 05:37 x4587.html
>  6 -r--r--r--  1 www  www  4638 Dec  8 18:06 x4749.html
>  6 -r--r--r--  1 www  www  4638 Dec 11 09:27 x4750.html
> 
> The Web site rebuild doesn't remove old files, so over time, we grow
> an accumulation of cruft.  Even though there are no pointers to the
> cruft from anywhere on our own Web site, there could easily be
> pointers from external sites (such as search engines).
> 
> I don't know what the best solution for this is.  It seems like we
> need to do some housecleaning periodically, to get rid of files that
> truly have obsolete content.

I found these duplicates via google.  Which means other people will 
be finding the old stuff too....
-- 
Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/


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