"John M. Dlugosz" wrote:
> 
> Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
> news:37D82862.740EEE42@pacbell.net...
> > I have considered adding a Pov users galleries section to my collection
> > but have resisted it simply because the sheer number of them that exist
> > would be a maintence nightmare. People change websites and providers
> > like clothing and it is hard to keep a "broken link" free page up to date.
> > My current data base is already a serious challenge to keep up with and
> > adding that section would seriously add to that burden. I may change my
> > mind in the future but don't expect it anytime soon.
> 
> Can't you have a Perl script periodically "hit" the link, and verify that
> it's still OK?  The page can show current status, and eventually the dud can
> be dropped.
> 
> --John

There are free programs available that will do this for you. For example
http://www.snafu.de/~tilman/xenulink.html is fairly well automated. The
only problem I have with these is that they can be easily fooled into 
thinking that a site or resource is gone when in reality there may only be
a temporary problem with the site that causes it to return an error to
the link checker. I have spent considerable time locating some of the
more obscure link sites and I don't trust a program to decide for me
if it should be removed from the collection. Then again as I am now
approaching 1000 links and will be adding many more in then near
future my stubborness in this regard may have to be re-evaluated for
sake of convenience.

-- 
Ken Tyler

See my 850+ Povray and 3D Rendering and Raytracing Links at:
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html

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