Gerry
You touch on a globally shared problem and very important problem for link lists and resource referencing services. It will be resolved one day. Once you find your reference sites if you ever can get all of them or a good list of those sites that identified you as a subject expert in the act of acting as a reference to your resource base. Try the http://purl.org/ method to save on possible repeated efforts. Try activating http://purl.org/gprecordingstudio as in case you move again...it allows you to do this type of work in a few seconds for all your referencing services. Referencers thank you when you can supply a more Persistent and Uniform method to Locate a Resource which is subject to moving, and your site can move again and again, from one domain to another domain. Any 400 series errors ( 404 -good luck finding me again ) without 300 series (302- I am over here now ) log records is a cyber librarians nightmare. Gerry: Good luck. You remind us all of our global responsibilities in evolving the connective efforts in handling references to mobile resources. The shared cost in knowledge maintenance is getting higher each day. Group: Is there a new URN paper due out on this problem of references that move and move again and again? Some time in November this Year is it? Knowing that this group has discussed the issue in the past, is there any one here with news or references to that news? Thank you. -Thomas Kay Information Resource Management Human Resources Development Federal Government of Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] (819)956-1502 ---------- Original Text ---------- From: "Gerry Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/07/2001 10:09 AM: Is there a way to program a robot to search every USA webpage permissable for my old webpage address and when it finds one to have it email me the URL of that page? That would enable me to alert people of my new web address and to change their webpage with the new address info. If this were possible, then possibly we could go one step further and have the robot search for email contact info in the webpage found to have my link in it and to automatically send an email alert that my address has changed. The robot could possibly be programmed if it found several email addresses to send alerts to the most likely webmaster's email address based on certain logic parameters. I've changed my webpage to a new server, I still have a redirect on my old server, but I hate for someone to have to be redirected especially considering they may not even get redirected if my old server is down or too congested. I created my webpage years ago when the public internet first started, so there weren't that many options and essentially what happened is I gradually built up a good business reputation and have many cross-links, directories, and search engines with my old web page address. My old address is long and bulky and is with compuserve http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/MIDIMAGIC/ My new web address is my own domain: gprecordingstudio.com I would think that a robot like this would be invaluable to anyone that has had a non-domain name web address and has decided to change or even worse has been forced to change because the company went out of business Any suggestions where I can find this? Gerry Peters gprecordingstudio.com A Songwriter Resource Center -- This message was sent by the Internet robots and spiders discussion list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). For list server commands, send "help" in the body of a message to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". -- This message was sent by the Internet robots and spiders discussion list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). For list server commands, send "help" in the body of a message to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
