I don't know whether it constitutes a "plague" or not, but I have some
preliminary figures from the URL checker that I set up to spider the
diplom.org site. After seven and a half hours, the program has checked
over 29,000 links. At least 50,000 remain to be checked. About 3% of the
links checked so far are bad. For those about to strain their brains
doing the math, the program is already reporting over 1,000 broken
links. I don't think that I'll be shelling in and fixing all of them
with my text editor of choice (vi) tonight. ;-)
The good news is that I'm starting to see some instances of "Item
already checked" flashing by. This would mean that I probably don't
have to wait another 16 hours or more for final results and that there
may not be 3,000 broken links by the time it's finished checking the
site...
Chris
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