Re: Ringlink 1.1 checker

["Boatbuilding Ring" <boatbuilding@boatbuildingring.com>]

| > A suggested enhancement for the checker - provide the ability to
| > check just a portion of the ring - like sites 1-25.  We have 215
| > sites in the ring - and it takes so long to run - and then the
| > results list is kind of hard to deal with.
| 
| If we make the checker work more accurate, the need for this feature
| would be reduced, wouldn't it? Anyway, I'll consider it.
Maybe, but I still think it's a good idea.
One of my favorite programs is Gossamer-Threads' Links 2.0.
However, the verify routine has no option to check the database in
chunks -- it's either all or nothing.  Therefore, 50% of Links users seem
to report that it doesn't work for them - for me, it takes 5-10 minutes to
get to Link 200 of 1400 and then it times out (actually just stops, 
either via telnet or the browser...)  It does work on some servers, not
on others, but no one seems to be able to narrow down specifically
what is causing it to fail.
I suppose my point is simply that adding an option to process the
verification in ranges will help insure that it works on a greater variety
of web servers and with varying numbers of sites...
I'm not really qualified to make comments on this since I'm waiting
to upgrade my Ringlink installation until stats are added, but since
I've spent days trying to get the Links checker to work, I wanted to add
my  1 1/2 cents...