Re: Web Faq Archives .. mostly broken, posing servers and spam from sun00744.dn.net

From: Andrew D. Taylor (adt@renc.igs.net)
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 17:23:47 CST


Previously, Matt Curtin <cmcurtin@scooter.interhack.net> said:

> Our (OSU-CIS) FAQ archive has officially closed and the main interface
> to the FAQs is making a best-effort attempt to redirect to the right
> place on www.faqs.org. There are some direct links to us still
> floating around and someone a long time ago unfortunately made several
> paths to get to the FAQs on our server, so we've still got some issues
> to settle there. (That's why you can still get to some FAQs.)
>
> But we're closed for lack of resources to maintain it; please remove
> any references to it.

Then why not just erase the archive. That way out dated info will not be
accessable and people will just get a broken link. It sometimes takes a
broken link to get people to stop refering to a web site.

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Andrew D. Taylor  adt@renc.igs.net
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