On Thursday 03 November 2005 02:03, Alphax wrote:
As a sidenote to this, someone (NullC? Eloquence?) is planning to run a bot to poll archive.org for all the external links on en: and subsuently replace all external links with links to the archive.org copies...
Yes, that strikes me as a bad idea too. Particularly, having done this for a number of broken links myself, the Way back machine has a number of dated copies of any given URL over periods of years. Linking to a copy of a a domain name squatter's advertisements after the original site went belly up doesn't sound useful. However, doing this automatically, or at least flagging such links, foreign links that return a 404 or domain squatters might be worthwhile.