Don't break existing links!

[Michael Nahrath]

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> schrieb am 2002-12-07 08:57 Uhr:

> I'll add them to the list as soon as I have figured (or patched) how
> to send permanent redirections.

IMO more accute: What is wrong with the server?

I still get a=20
"the connection was refused when attempting to caontact www.gnupg.org"

Same for "lists.gnupg.org" and "www.gnupg.de"
=20
>> There are also few links which no longer exist.  How do we have to
>> handle them?
>=20
> You rfc2440 etc. -

Why not take <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2440.txt> for the link instead?

> I think we can forget about this and assume that
> the users are smart enough to look elsewhere.

But then you should at least have a realy informative 404 page that contain=
s
apologize for gone pages, some help for the users ("maybe you mistyped=A0..."=
)
and all the navigational links to the rest of the existing pages.

Those give good example:
<http://www.htmlhelp.org/just-testing-error-pages.html>
<http://www.w3.org/just-testing-error-pages.html>
<http://www.useit.com/alertbox/just-testing-error-pages.html>

Greeting, Michi