I have a 15-year-old weblog that has over 6000 external links. I have a plugin that combs through the links and reports the errors it gets on each one. In many cases, I can redirect the link to the Internet Archive, but in some cases the original site's robots.txt prevents this, which is a rule I disagree with: if it was once posted on the internet, it ought to be fair game.

Nearly half the links have died over the years and a fair number of them just inaccessible, even through IA. It's too bad.

And yes, I agree, dates and times on posts and relevant version numbers would help a lot. I find a lot of tips that apply to PHP4 when searching on version 7 features and it's pretty annoying.

On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 6:18 PM, mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:

...I could retire a zillionaire. lol

(Thought of this as I tried to reference several old VFP links)

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