On 26/10/2007, Charlotte Webb <charlottethewebb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/25/07, Bryan Derksen
<bryan.derksen(a)shaw.ca> wrote:
I suppose if the "dead" link goes to
something actively misleading
instead of just a standard 404 page one should deactivate the link,
though, to make sure readers notice the fact that it's not the material
that was originally referenced.
Such as those phony domain-squatter search engine pages that crop up
when people fail to pay their bills.
Mmm. We get quite a few of these (and if we're unlucky, it's squatted
by a pornsite). Is there any practical way of spidering through our
links to check for these?
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk