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Re: Broken links, are we ever going to address them?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martijn Koster)
Wed Jan 25 06:23:03 1995

Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 11:45:01 +0100
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From: Martijn Koster <m.koster@nexor.co.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>


> BTW wasn't the point of LINK REV=made href="mailto:blah@site" 
> so that clients could notify the maker of a document if it had
> broken links?

I' not sure it is good enough:

- nobody uses it (but everyone uses a server)
- it requires email support
- either it requires manual action, or has to be implemented
  in every client.
- it can be great fun if someone copies my document with errors,
  but never corrects them when I do.
- it can be so easily abused: <HEAD><LINK REV=made
  href="lilley@afs.manchester-computing-centre.ac.uk">
  You're all a load of *** :-)
- it can be so easily abused: <HEAD><LINK REV=made
  href="add@my.com">
  Thanks for requesting our add, your email address
  has been added to our mail-shot list :-)

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