On Apr 26, 2017, at 1:33 PM, Jack Mitchell &lt;jmitchell.nc(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Thanks for this information, Jack. The screenshot in Jack's message shows part of the page http://www.neffa.org/Top/Festivals/index.shtml In the screenshot, we see 6 purple links, 14 red links, and 31 green (good?) links. Of the 31 green links, the three nearest the top are internal to the LinkFest, leaving 28 external links not detected as bad by the link checker. However, closer examination reveals that about half of those 28 links are in fact stale. Below is a rundown on the definitely stale ones plus a couple questionable ones. Let me emphasize that my point is *not* to whine to NEFFA/Dan about the LinkFest not being maintained, nor to to whine about the (former?) owners of the target pages of the bad links. My point is to illustrate some of the varied ways that links can go stale, and to ask whether there are automatic tools that can do a better job of detecting them. Belgium - World Festival of Folklore http://come.to/schoten Redirects to a page in the domain www.realtor.com Canada - index http://www.festivalfinder.com Site is apparently under construction: "Welcome to FestivalFinder.com a Diverse, Festival Listing Site – Coming Soon!" (but what does "Soon" really mean?) Versions captured in the Internet Archive from May 1997 through June 2015 seem to have been working. Canada/Alberta - Calgary - Hispanic Performing Arts ... http://www.geocities.com/~hispanicarts/ Redirects to https://smallbusiness.yahoo.com (as do other geocities sites) England - Chippenham Folk Festival</A> - In Chippenham http://members.aol.com/chippfolk/index.html Redirects to an AOL login page. If I got an AOL account and logged in, it might indeed take me to a page having something to do with the Chippenham Folk Festival. I'm not about to try. KY - Gray Hawk - Stringbean Memorial Bluegrass Festival - ... http://www.geocities.com/stringfest/ Redirects to https://smallbusiness.yahoo.com Netherlands - index http://www.euronet.nl/~trio/ Last updated 31 May 2011. However, it doesn't seem to claim to have any regularly updated calendar information. It just has a bunch of links (some good, some stale) to other sites. PA - Elmhurst - Endless Mountains Blues Fest - ... http://www.blues101.org Now a page full of text in some Asian language. TN - Sevierville - Bluegrass in the Smokies - ... http://www.BluegrassInTheSmokies.com The banner at the top says "Bluegrassinthesmokies.com" but the contents are stuff about bodybuilding and ads for tree services. (I am not making this up.) UK - Ipswich - International Country Music Festival - ... http://www.minifest.co.uk/ Goes to a page soliciting offers to buy the domain name. United Kingdom - Stirrings' Folk Festival Newsletter http://www.stirrings.co.uk/folkzone/index.html Goes to http://www.stirrings.co.uk which appears to advertise live music for weddings and other event. The current content deems very different from in Internet Archive snapshots from 10 years ago or so, which show the online version of a folk, roots and acoustic music magazine. USA - CA - Napa Valley Music Festival - Three days in September http://www.napafest.com "... The owner of napafest.com is offering it for sale ..." USA - CA - Old-Time Fiddlers' Convention - also has singing, ... http://www.fiddlersconvention.org/dpage.php?page_id=1 "This Account has been suspended." USA - CT - NOMAD (NOrtheast Music And Dance) Festival - ... http://www.nomadfest.org/ "No NOMAD Festival in 2008" -- and if there has been one since then, the organizers seem to have have been darn quiet about it on the web. USA - index - Festival Finder http://www.festivalfinder.com Supposedly under construction (see "Canada - index" above). USA - MA - Boston Folk Festival</A> - Mid-September http://www.bostonfolkfestival.org/ The site, which seems to be administered by radio station, WUMB doesn't appear (at the time I write this) to show any info about a mid-September folk festival, though it does show info abut registration being open for summer acoustic music weeks in July and August USA - MA - Greater New Bedford Summerfest - ... http://www.barrel-of-music.com "BUY THIS DOMAIN The owner of barrel-of-music.com is offering it for sale ..." Oddly, one link marked as red by the checker seems to be good: movable - Folk Alliance Conference - Yearly conference for ... http://www.folk.org --Jim