My TCP/IP Resources List seems sufficiently interesting for some people
who see it to create a web page from it at their own home page / site.
Some of those people fail to update it, and the unupdated copy fills
up with dead links. Worse, some of the people who dont update their
copy of the page didnt even mark it themselves - they just copy it
from faqs.org (not caring that some of the graphics are broken at
their site) or some other place.
And who gets the complaints about dead links ? I do, as my E-mail address
is their and I'm the author, and the copier's E-mail address is absent.
So I've added a text at the top of the FAQ asking people not to create
copies of the FAQ on the web, with a short explanation.
A couple of days ago I came across a copy of the FAQ on a web server in
Korea - the marking is plain horrible, and it wasnt updated for nearly
six months. At the bottom of the page the marker has left his E-mail
address. So I E-mail him saying the markup has problems, and would he
just replace it with a link to the official location ?
Turns out it's not the page he created - A Korean lifted his HTML and
saved it at his web server, including the E-mail address. The Korean
then messed up the HTML (apparently the Korean tried to add an index),
and leftr it at that.
Now I'm pissed off - why is it that some idiots create broken copies
of pages and fail to update it ? isnt it simpler to just make a link
to it or ask whomever created the page to make a change (e.g. add an
index, like I guess the Korean wanted to do) ?
I know I cant prevent people from taking the article straight out of
the NNTP spool with a news-reader or the HTML right off a site with
any plain old browser, but what can I do ?
Uri Raz.
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