On 3/21/06, Lachlan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This happened to me recently with > a news article on Yahoo news I think. I can't remember what article it > was or where I followed the link from, but it was rather annoying not > being able to read it.
I found this out the hard way, I maintain a site with science news for kinds. Yahoo only keeps news items up for a few weeks, then they just disappear. Now everytime I want to link to an article I have to double-check the archives of the site in question to try and work out how far they go back and if it's "safe" to link. Their site breaks, my site breaks. Link rot is an ugly thing. I agree there are some things that need to go from a site, and not come back... but generally, the URI's should definitely stay, and at least go somewhere else. I think everyone here is arguing two separate points. A URI and the content at that URI are two separate things. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.zombiecoder.com/ ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
