"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in message 
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> Chris B wrote:
>> Then, if Jim is able to run the links from that list through a tool and 
>> flag the ones that need tracking down,
>
> As said, we can already provide this information. Format-wise, if a text 
> file is preferred, I would go for tab-separated table or one line per 
> field. List of fields could be provided (likely four: link, title, 
> description and category-id for link records, slightly different format 
> for categories of course).
>
>> If there's a unique ID from the database that we can keep associated with 
>> the individual records,
>
> Of course there is :-)  In fact, try to follow any one of the links and 
> you can see it.
>
> Thorsten

OK. That sounds like it'll work. So long as we've got a format that we know 
will load back into the database without too much effort.
Of the two formats I'd prefer tab-separated as I hate counting lines :-).

I would suggest using email for exchanging bits of the file because we 
obviously want to avoid ending up with divergent copies flying around.

Thorsten, I'll email you my private email address (the one I use for 
postings tends to predominantly just get junk mail). If you could send me a 
file I'll look at how to split it amongst anyone wanting to help. Sounds 
like the file will need 6 fields, the ones you mentioned plus the unique ID 
and a flag indicating which ones are known to be dead links. Is there a need 
to look at updating the categories, or will you just send a copy of the 
current ones for reference purposes?

Jim, are you in?
Anyone else like to help?

Once we've got started we'll set a closing date and invite people to give us 
new links through this newsgroup.
After that we'll send back the new file for loading into the database.

Regards,
Chris B.

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