[boost] Re: broken links and web site feedback...

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-14 08:22:46

William McDonald writes:
> While trying to send the following message to boost_at_[hidden], 
> it bounced back.
 
It's been a while since we switched to Mailman -- 
http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost. Does it still say 
'boost_at_[hidden]' somewhere on the website (besides 
http://www.boost.org/more/faq.htm -- just fixed this one)?

> I'm not sure who handles broken links (i.e. who your web master is), 
> but this link only redirects if it doesn't have the 'index.htm' after 
> it.  It is off the main library page 
> (http://www.boost.org/libs/smart_ptr/index.htm)...

Hmm, a search of "smart_ptr/index.htm" through all the docs/HTML pages 
didn't turn up anything. Are you sure the link came from the Boost 
website?

> Broken link:  http://www.boost.org/libs/smart_ptr/index.htm 

This one indeed doesn't work (should be "index.html"), but then it 
doesn't seem to be present anywhere on the website.

> I recommend putting the web master's feedback link on the bottom of 
> every page.

We don't have a single webmaster, but some address that doesn't require
one to join a mailing list in order to report a typo or broken link 
indeed would be nice. 

Folks, do we have one already?

> TIA,

Thanks for your comments!

--
Aleksey Gurtovoy
MetaCommunications Engineering