Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.
Re: Junk in URLs and link-rot
Author: Wesley Felter Posted: 3/8/1999; 6:58:15 PM Topic: Unique vs. Generic URLs Msg #: 3827 (In response to 3826) Prev/Next: 3826 / 3828
As a good example, look at InfoWorld:http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/99/10/i02-10.53.htm
I really don't care that they're using a Perl CGI. If Frontier can support non-ugly URLs, you'd think the huge sites could do it.
But that's not nearly as bad as many sites where the URL is all numbers. I know one of those numbers is my personal tracking number (which I would like to trim off when I link to the page), but which one? StoryServer rates really low too, with URLs that are all numbers and commas; who ever heard of commas in a URL?
There are responses to this message:
- StoryServer's URLs?, Dave Winer, 3/8/1999; 7:07:00 PM
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