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<a href="../199812/237. What I'm saying is that until we clean up our site we present a moving target... it's a waste of time to chase something that we can't pin down... david potter On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Norman L. DeForest wrote: > > I wasn't referring to submitting listings to search-engines. > I was referring to using them to find other sites that link to > CCN pages using the old domain names -- sites such as these > (including sites in Israel, Chile, and the Slovak Republic) > which all have links with "cfn.cs.dal.ca" URLs (including > one link to our Featured IP): > > http://ramat-negev.org.il/agricult.htm > http://aix1.ucv.cl/~pproust/nbn/NBNA2B.HTM > http://sun.uniag.sk/~hruskova/prezenta/spdrsweb.html > http://web.texramp.net/~dbell/bookmark.html > http://familymedicine.miningco.com/msubpark.htm > http://cityguide-uk.lycos.com/asia/china/CHNWuhan.html > http://conbio.bio.uci.edu/orchid/orchsoc.htm > http://hillhouse.ckp.edu/hhcan/hhcan.html > http://monger.net/~mitch/fun.html > http://gahtan.com/lawlinks/misc.htm > http://home.gvi.net/~rphillip/garden.html > http://degaulle.hil.unb.ca/misc/location.html > http://www.crest.org/efficiency/strawbale-list-archive/9606/msg00005.html > http://www.nsnet.org/distext2.html > http://www3.pei.sympatico.ca/garyschneider/bird/birds.html > http://www.beadwrangler.com/weaversnet.htm > http://www.acs.oakland.edu/honors-college/envlink.htm > http://www.csr.ists.ca/w3can/scope/scope_school.html > http://www.excite.com/apple/guide/Education_and_Reference/Universities_and_Colleges/Fields_of_Study/Science/Environment/reviews.html > http://www.saintsebastian.org/canada-links.html > http://www.crcp.nb.ca/cpnb/repert/paysag.htm > http://www.dlcwest.com/~rharmon/penthouse/crypt.htm > > It would be nice if the owners of any CCN pages could find all references > to those pages with the old URLs and notify the webmasters at those sites > about the need to update their sites *before* the links become broken. > > > Also, as those sites get updated, the web-spiders would less-frequently > encounter such old links and less-frequently end up re-indexing CCN with > the old URLs all over again. > > > On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, David L. Potter wrote: > > > Let's not invest ANY time in submitting/re-submitting listings to > > search engines until we get CCN cleaned up... we run the risk of making > > things worse... > > > > david potter > > > > > > On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Norman L. DeForest wrote: > > > > > > > > It might also be worth using some of the special features of the search > > > engines to look for sites with specific links. To look for links to > > > "ccn.cs.dal.ca/~af380" (as a totally random example) that are NOT on CCN, > > > the syntax for AltaVista in the Advanced Search page would be > > > > > > link:ccn.cs.dal.ca/~af380 AND NOT url:ccn.cs.dal.ca > [snip] > > > A search for sites that use explicit "cfn" or "ccn" URLs finds almost > > > fifteen hundred of them listed on AltaVista alone and any visitor that > > > uses those links and then follows relative URLs on the ccn/cfn pages and > > > bookmarks anything will also be using the old domains in their bookmarks. > > > Norman De Forest http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~af380/Profile.html > af380@chebucto.ns.ca [=||=] (A Speech Friendly Site) > ......................................................................... > "I'd offer to change your mind for you, but I don't have a fresh diaper." > -- Leah to pro-spammer in news.admin.net-abuse.email > ......................................................................... > Spammers, see: http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~af380/Profile.html#Contact > Spammees, see: http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~af380/Antispam.html >
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