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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
Nah, I don't automatically delete them - if they're dead, I run them through Wayback Machine to see if they might be worth saving.
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I had an extension in Firefox at one point that added a right-click context menu to run a failing URL through the Waybak machine.
Wearing another hat, I maintain a site about computer text editors. There are 1,800+ entries at the moment. Each editor has a page with descriptive information about it, including where to get it. A fair number of those Homepage: links now point to a Waybak copy, because the original page is long gone. (I don't worry about links for shareware programs that can no longer be registered, if you must have a registered version to have a usable copy.)
I think I saw something like that where the poster had a setup that played recognizable songs made from the sounds a running system made. It's Yet Another Instance of "Some people have way too much time on their hands..."
Automatically deleting dead links is the least of my worries. I've been collecting URLs for a
long time. Just finding
duplicates is a challenge. (I've looked at various Firefox extensions for doing that, but have not seen one that suited me. Still looking.)
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Dennis