Onsite queries and surname lists are two bad ideas as far as I'm
concerned. It seems the average person doesn't keep an e-mail address
for much more than a year. [ I admit - there are exceptions - I've had
mine for twenty-three years - old address's like that collect a LOT of
spam ]
Archive whatever queries you have and make it plain - "THEY ARE
ARCHIVED" in big red letters and that you are no longer actively seeking
queries for the site.. Then direct visitors to Rootsweb/Ancestry boards.
For surname lists I make a big red disclaimer that most of the e-mail
links will be dead. If they find one please let me know and I'll remove
the e-mail address. If they are on the list and have a new address let
me know and I'll change it for them. And, if they want on the list let
me know.
I've had a few people tell me about dead links and a few update their
information.
On 07/09/2016 07:41 PM, Timothy Stowell via wrote:
Working on an old site, it shows 215 broken links of which a vast
majority
are from email addresses where the return says 'no such host'. I realize
many are from ISPs that went belly up or were absorbed by another entity.
Thus the question - does the Project, states or counties or you have any
rule on how long one retains queries on-line? Do you just comment out the
email address, note it as dead but leave the query or dispose of them after
so many months or years?
I have queries back to 1996 on some sites.
Tim S.
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