On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 02:43:12PM +0200, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 323 lines which said:
> > The best place to put such a link checker are certainly inside > > del.icio.us itself. > > Actually, I don't think so. Anyway, the discussion is purely theoretical because we have no idea on wether Yahoo will consider this. That's why I developed disastrous, because we had no commitment of Yahoo on this service. > Reason: There can be URLs, which are not reachable from the outside, > and thus such a service, if run "from the outside" would wrongly > label those URLs as broken, while in reality, they are just fine. The opposite is also true: Yahoo crawlers probably have better connections than my LittleProvider.com machine and so will have less spurious failures. My main concern about tools like disastrous is that popular links, bookmarked by N persons, will be checked N times...
