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Title: Examples.......Bad links!!!
Post by: Ghoward on July 11, 2003, 11:33:05 am

Hi,

We may have 685 projects listed on the examples page however when I was looking though them a few weeks back quite a good number of them are bad links of the page is no longer up.

I think it would be a good idea to go though them all and remove all those dead links.

If one of the admins likes this idea I would be willing to go though the pages myself and list all bad links so they can be removed.

Thanks

Gary

Title: Re:Examples.......Bad links!!!
Post by: Howard_Casto on July 12, 2003, 02:39:41 pm

The examples with bad links are kept up so that the original authors can easily update the link, or optionally a user who knows the new url can find it and have it fixed.  Sadly, many of the classic examples (which were of a higher quality imho)  are gone for good.  :(

Title: Re:Examples.......Bad links!!!
Post by: Jason on August 26, 2003, 06:02:45 pm

Let's say I wanted to update the link to my project on the examples page, is there an automatic way to do that?  When I finish moving to my new web host I don't want there to be another bad link!

To me it looks like the submit project form would add another copy rather than update my current one.  I emailed saint about the new url yesterday, do you think that'll suffice?

Later,
J

Title: Re:Examples.......Bad links!!!
Post by: Chris on August 31, 2003, 06:47:29 pm

I submitted a URL change via E-mail ages ago and the fix still hasn't been made. Howard, how can we update our own projects pages?  I'm too stupid to figure it out.... :(

Title: Re:Examples.......Bad links!!!
Post by: Howard_Casto on September 03, 2003, 10:44:11 pm

You send an email to one of the admins and they will change it.  

Title: Re:Examples.......Bad links!!!
Post by: saint on September 03, 2003, 11:02:06 pm

I'm slow these days but I think I have all the URL changes up to date on the examples that have been submitted, except for the last day or so...

Title: Re:Examples.......Bad links!!!
Post by: SirPeale on September 06, 2003, 10:45:22 pm

Saint -

I doubt that.  I emailed you and PM'd you regarding my new URL, and it's still the same.

The only reason the old URL resolves is because recently I had a hosting problem, and had to put the old site back up momentarily.

Title: Re:Examples.......Bad links!!!
Post by: saint on September 07, 2003, 11:49:02 am

Don't know what I did there, but it's fixed now.  Anyone else I've missed please remind me.

--- saint

Quote from: Peale on September 06, 2003, 10:45:22 pm

Saint -

I doubt that.  I emailed you and PM'd you regarding my new URL, and it's still the same.

The only reason the old URL resolves is because recently I had a hosting problem, and had to put the old site back up momentarily.

Title: Re:Examples.......Bad links!!!
Post by: SpamMe on September 25, 2003, 02:42:22 am

I sent them this link on the 14th
http://www.ebold.com/~spamme/results.html

and I got this reply:
Eek, I knew it was bad but not that bad.  I went through the first 50
links tonight, will try to get the rest in chunks over the next couple
of weeks.  Thanks for the reminder