Website errors
Tom Rhodes
trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Mon Dec 15 07:54:14 PST 2003
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) ...
>
> 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.
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Tom Rhodes
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