Re: Broken links

I don't think it is right, I think it shows that some people haven't 
understood the web very well, or that things are lost (having been 
trained as an historian, this doesn't strike me as progress ;-)

One of the general rambling documents produced by Tim Berners-Lee about 
the Web is called "cool URIs don't change" - in my opinion one of the 
more important documents he has written (others would include the 
original specification for HTML, and much more important for URLs and 
HTTP).

see http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

cheers

Chaals

On Thursday, Feb 13, 2003, at 20:11 Australia/Melbourne, Jesper 
Tverskov wrote:

> Is it right, that users should expect and we should all accept broken 
> links as a natural thing in old web pages and in archived material?
>
> I would like to hear some opinions on this issue, since I have my 
> doubts?
>
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