cfn change

Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 14:11:46 -0400 (AST)
From: "David L. Potter" <potter@chebucto.ns.ca>
To: "Norman L. DeForest" <af380@chebucto.ns.ca>
cc: Christopher Majka <nextug@IS.Dal.Ca>, CCN Userhelp <userhelp@chebucto.ns.ca>, ccn-ip@chebucto.ns.ca
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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.
> 
> 
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