[WEB4LIB] Re: BOBBY sold to Watchfire

[Raymond Wood]

> Jerry Kuntz wrote:
> >I'm a little concerned that the BOBBY accessability
> >validation was bought by Watchfire in August:
> >http://www.watchfire.com/news/pressRelease.asp?ID=73
> >Although they say the single page free service will continue,
> >I'm not encouraged by Watchfire's history--they took a great
> >link checker, Linkbot, integrated it into a suite aimed at
> >corporations, and in doing priced it out of the reach of
> >their former customers.
> >Jerry Kuntz

On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 01:13:16PM -0700, Shaw Yu remarked:
> You are exactly right about Watchfire.  But I could not find
> any open source software comparable with Linkbot.  That's
> unfortunately.
> 
> Shaw Yu

There was a recent thread on this list IIRC about linkchecking
software.  Xenu does a decent job (windows platform only).

Cheers,
Raymond