- From: Stuart Young <nakor@glasswings.com.au>
- Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 00:17:20 +1000 (EST)
- To: Shawn Steele <shawn@aob.org>
- cc: www-html@w3.org, Sean Howard <showard@visdesigns.com>
On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Shawn Steele wrote: > > Now the fun part. It won't mirror the deleting of files. You > > actually have to call or email someone to delete files from a site > > If you rename a file, you end up with the old AND the new on the live > > server. Talk about Ghost page mania. You should have seen us until we > > finally straightened out what was going on... <s> > > Ick! IMHO deleting files in the first place is a really bad thing to > do. They stay with the indexes and as people's links FOREVER! (or at > least close to it.) Renaming is almost worse because then you haven't > even gotten rid of the content. (Which, presumably, would be the > reason to delete a file.) We try hard to make sure that pages we > create will stay there and not vanish in the future. I would suggest the easiest way if you 'do' change your site to this extent is to create a 'dummy' file that tells the user the page has been replaced, and/or points them to a new page that corresponds to their topic of interest, or alternatively, the head of that section or the home page. I doubt that overwriting files would be a problem... /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Stuart Young (aka Cefiar) - You may be human, but you're still animals! | | nakor@glasswings.com.au - If you've done 6 impossible things, write HTML | \--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
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