[WikiEN-l] Harassment sites

Andrew Gray shimgray at gmail.com
Fri Oct 26 15:31:53 UTC 2007


On 26/10/2007, Charlotte Webb <charlottethewebb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/25/07, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at 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 at dunelm.org.uk



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