The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.emacs.xemacs as well. Hi All! Some of you might be interested in how many of this links behind http://www.xemacs.org/ are broken. I was, when I set out to test and improve the situation back in September 2001. I decided to use http://www.linklint.org/ for the purpose and found this: --------------------------------------------. file: urlsum.txt | --------------------------------------------| Linklint version: 2.3.3 | | Linklink checked 734 urls: | 625 were ok, 94 failed. 72 urls moved. | 7 hosts failed: 7 urls could be retried.| 18 files had failed urls. | There were 50 files with broken links. | --------------------------------------------' After putting in some work, using Google a lot, contacting many people, and inducing many page hits along the way I can report these results as of today: --------------------------------------------. file: urlsum.txt | --------------------------------------------| Linklint version: 2.3.5 | | Linklint checked 796 urls: | 776 were ok, 7 failed. 36 urls moved. | 5 hosts failed: 5 urls could be retried.| 7 files had failed urls. | There were 14 files with broken links. | --------------------------------------------' Of these remaining problems most are caused by the dynamics of the internet. Some of our mirrors deny requests from outside their top-level domains. Some sites are not reachable 100% of the time. Best regards, Adrian -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/