- From: Ralph R. Swick <swick@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 09:26:45 -0400
- To: "Andrew Cates" <Andrew.Cates@sos-uk.org.uk>
- Cc: <pics-interest@w3.org>, <site-comments@w3.org>
At 01:09 PM 7/8/2005 +0100, Andrew Cates wrote: >What seems to be the main PICS page http://www.w3.org/PICS/ has some fourteen broken links in it to outside and within W3. Thank you for the report, Andrew. Linkrot is unfortunate but few organizations seem to understand the long-term benefit of preserving URIs as does the W3C. The PICS page is now primarily a record of the state of that work as of five years ago. Rather than drop the 404 links from the historic record entirely, I have added "[broken link as of July 2005]" annotations. Motivated people could perhaps use Web archives such as the Internet Archive [1] to search for copies of these materials. [1] http://www.archive.org/ The DTD system identifier URI error is noteworthy, as our HTML validator tool did not flag that http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html401/loose.dtd was not the proper URI. I have reported that to our systems folk. -Ralph
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