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WEB archive FAQ links

Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2020 9:28 am
by mdwilson1991
I think the wayback machine has messed things up. The links to the old FAQs are no longer working. At least, for gold and stocks they aren't.

I get the error:

Sorry.
This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine.


I've never seen this error before.

Re: WEB archive FAQ links

Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2020 9:34 am
by dualstow
FAQs for which site? This one?

Re: WEB archive FAQ links

Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2020 3:15 pm
by yankees60
mdwilson1991 wrote: Sat Mar 21, 2020 9:28 am I think the wayback machine has messed things up. The links to the old FAQs are no longer working. At least, for gold and stocks they aren't.

I get the error:

Sorry.
This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine.


I've never seen this error before.
As I was quite oftentimes going back through Topics in the archives here I routinely got the same error message for Topics before a certain date.

Vinny

Re: WEB archive FAQ links

Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2020 12:18 am
by mdwilson1991
dualstow wrote: Sat Mar 21, 2020 9:34 am FAQs for which site? This one?
Yes, for example, under the Stock section is a Stock FAQ. They worked fairly recently but now the wayback machine has other ideas.

Re: WEB archive FAQ links

Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2020 7:23 am
by dualstow
Ahhh, ok. I had remembered seeing FAQ, but I’d forgotten that they were within sections. It was driving me nuts that I couldn’t find it on the main page.

If they ever get fixed, I’ll archive them myself.

Re: WEB archive FAQ links

Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2020 11:08 am
by yankees60
dualstow wrote: Sun Mar 22, 2020 7:23 am Ahhh, ok. I had remembered seeing FAQ, but I’d forgotten that they were within sections. It was driving me nuts that I couldn’t find it on the main page.

If they ever get fixed, I’ll archive them myself.
Dualstow!

Of course I LOVE your new picture!

Vinny

Re: WEB archive FAQ links

Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2020 2:44 pm
by Xan
It's possible that whoever ended up with crawlingroad.com had a robots.txt which disallowed everything. I believe the Wayback Machine honors current robots.txt even for archives, and also it doesn't have any concept of a site being replaced by a different one.

I fear the FAQs may be lost. :-(

Re: WEB archive FAQ links

Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2020 4:51 pm
by dualstow
Maybe Craig has it on a hard drive somewhere.