Re: [Net-Gold] COUNTRIES: CHINA: RESOURCES: CULTURE: ART: HISTORY: Interne...

[BradL...@aol.com]

In a message dated 3/6/2006 10:24:55 PM Eastern Standard Time, sfinemel@..........writes:

All the links are dead and the Egypt resource sent the other day also had
mostly dead links! I was intrigued by the Egypt page and sent it to some
colleagues to be attacked for sending such a page!
Sybil Finemel

Library Director MLIS.CIO.


Hi Sylvia,

I apologize.  I'm especially sorry that you were attacked
when you sent something to someone in good faith.  When
I send in a link to a page, I get the link from the page itself;
I don't copy and paste the link.

I know the main link worked.  When I did the China page,
I checked a couple of links on the main webpage...and the
links I checked worked.  The two links I checked are these:

History of China
http://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/welcome.html


China, the Beautiful
http://www.chinapage.com/main2.html


The same person does all the 'World Civilization' webpages.
It's copyrighted 1996 and now I'm wondering if he did the
work and then abandoned it.

I sent the same type of resource(?) in on India and when
I checked today almost none of the links worked.  The same
thing happened when I checked the email I sent on Islam
resources.  And as you found out the hard way, the Egypt
resource had almost no good links. 

I did notice that almost all the links were from an .edu domain.
Those are generally ephemeral.  There seem to be a lot of
professors moving around; once they leave an institution, their
internet pages disappear.  I know that, yet I didn't check all
the links on the individual pages. The fact that most of the links
were broken is not my fault.  The fact that I didn't check them
before sending the emails in is my fault.

I do apologize for sending in links to what I thought would be
fantastic resources without checking further down the line to
make sure that what was promised was actually there.

I'm sending this to Net-Gold in addition to sending it to you privately
so that others won't waste their time on those links.

Sincerely,

Linda Bee
Temple Terrace, FL
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