Maintenance is so booooooooooring -Reply -Reply

[Dan Lester]

>>> Sheryl Dwinell <dwinells at vmsb.csd.mu.edu> 08/14/97
01:38pm >>>
>But don't validators simply tell you whether a not a page
>*exists* at a particular URL? It won't tell you (for
>example) that the page now says "This wonderful
>reference source has moved -- its new location is
>http://some.other.location/".

No, there are validators that tell you this sort of information,
such as
the validator we use, Linkbot.

Same is true of CyberSpyder, which I recommended in
previous message.

dan


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