Re: [ydn-delicious] Maintaining the del.icio.us links

2006-08-23 Thread sheila miguez
On 8/13/06, rikmaes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An old problem, yet still without answer. It would be extremely useful to have the opportunity to check the links of all your del.icio.us bookmarks on their availability. My own experience is that older entries in del.icio.us deteriorate due to this

RE: [ydn-delicious] Maintaining the del.icio.us links

2006-08-23 Thread Joshua Schachter
Could probably get Yahoo Search cache links in there :) _ From: ydn-delicious@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sheila miguez Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 7:48 AM To: ydn-delicious@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [ydn-delicious

Re: [ydn-delicious] Maintaining the del.icio.us links

2006-08-18 Thread sheila miguez
On 8/15/06, Joshua Schachter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All kinds of subtlety here. For example, what to do if the site happens to be down while we check it? What about respecting robots.txt etc? Has anyone run an analysis on sample data to gauge the accuracies of typical detection strategies?

RE: [ydn-delicious] Maintaining the del.icio.us links

2006-08-16 Thread Larson, Timothy E.
Joshua Schachter wrote: All kinds of subtlety here. For example, what to do if the site happens to be down while we check it? What about respecting robots.txt etc? I don't think there's too much subtlety involved. Obviously (to me), robots.txt needs to be respected. Those links will simply

Re: [ydn-delicious] Maintaining the del.icio.us links

2006-08-16 Thread Hamish MacEwan
On 8/16/06, Joshua Schachter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All kinds of subtlety here. For example, what to do if the site happens to be down while we check it? What about respecting robots.txt etc? Site down? system:dead, system:unresponsive, lasts until next check (automatic or manual) shows

RE: [ydn-delicious] Maintaining the del.icio.us links

2006-08-15 Thread Larson, Timothy E.
rikmaes wrote: An old problem, yet still without answer. It would be extremely useful to have the opportunity to check the links of all your del.icio.us bookmarks on their availability. My own experience is that older entries in del.icio.us deteriorate due to this phenomenon. Is there

Re: [ydn-delicious] Maintaining the del.icio.us links

2006-08-15 Thread Christopher O'Brien
On Aug 15, 2006, at 10:14 AM, Larson, Timothy E. wrote: rikmaes wrote: [snip...] Is there any solution for this obsolescence problem? I'd very much like an automated facility like this. Links could be classed dead and denoted by CSS or something. Obviously they shouldn't be removed

RE: [ydn-delicious] Maintaining the del.icio.us links

2006-08-15 Thread Joshua Schachter
, 2006 10:04 AM To: ydn-delicious@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [ydn-delicious] Maintaining the del.icio.us links On Aug 15, 2006, at 10:14 AM, Larson, Timothy E. wrote: rikmaes wrote: [snip...] Is there any solution

Re: [ydn-delicious] Maintaining the del.icio.us links

2006-08-15 Thread Christopher O'Brien
Hey Joshua, On Aug 15, 2006, at 1:33 PM, Joshua Schachter wrote: All kinds of subtlety here. For example, what to do if the site happens to be down while we check it? What about respecting robots.txt etc? You could explicitly only use HTTP return codes. That is to say, only take action