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Curt:
The list has two parts and is available at:

http://muntealb.orgfree.com/Legaturi/links-software.htm

-muntealb (June 20, 2009, 10:31 PM)
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- the link will trigger some pop-up advert of a kind:

http://optimizedby.rmxads.com/rw?title=New%20offer!&qs=iframe3%3FJBwAAP0sAwD9nSQAivkKAAIAAAAAAP8AAAABGAICAAK9swEAwaYPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA4k6k5FUAAAAAAAAAAAAAABFANsCFAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGahakm-QhwZ29y4ZcbC.x4CHgkgX2Nfx-Tx.OwAAAAA%3D%2C%2Chttp%3A%2F%2Fmuntealb.orgfree.com%2Flegaturi%2Flinks-software.htm
-pop-up advert
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My safety settings won't let me know what the pop-up is about.  :tellme:

4wd:
- the link will trigger some pop-up advert of a kind:-Curt (June 21, 2009, 04:57 PM)
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orgfree.com is a free web hosting service and in line with the majority of them you have to agree to display their advertising, that's all.

I didn't get any advertising, no doubt due to Adblock or NoScript.

From orgfree.com's ToS paragraph 1:
You may not remove, resize so as to render invisible or unreadable, or otherwise block any of the ads that FreeWebHostingArea.com inserts onto your web pages.
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muntealb:
Innuendo, some time ago I had something similar with what you have proposed, but almost nobody used it, so I removed it. Anyway, I have now added two links at the bottom of the pages (in the explanatory notes) that will open new e-mail messages with the subject already written.

Tinjaw, I did not know about W3C Link Checker, so I tested it with the pages. It works, but it generates false positives like the ones showed below.
====================
Checking link http://www.helpandmanual.com/
HEAD http://www.helpandmanual.com/
-> GET http://www.ec-software.com/error404.html
-> GET http://www.ec-software.com/error404.html  fetched in 3.61s

Checking link http://www.mobile-master.com/
HEAD http://www.mobile-master.com/
-> GET http://www.mobile-master.com/404.html  fetched in 3.23s

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I checked again the list yesterday with the FF extension and found only 5 instances where the software was gone (site was removed from the internet) and 15 instances where the software page was present, but moved at a different address than that specified on my page. Of course I have uploaded the updated pages on my site.

The FF extension is more intuitive (it has colors) and more accurate, in my opinion. None of the link checkers can detect parked domains and this is the biggest problem.

Curt, the ad popup is an usual one, just like 4wd explained. It has 3 or 4 text links similar with Google AdSense and is under the control of the hosting provider. They get the revenue needed to provide the hosting for free.

Innuendo:
Innuendo, some time ago I had something similar with what you have proposed, but almost nobody used it, so I removed it.-muntealb
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Makes sense, I guess. After all, your target audience is a group of people too lazy to search out this software for themselves. What in the world make me think they'd have enough motivation to click a link? ;)

The FF extension is more intuitive (it has colors) and more accurate, in my opinion. None of the link checkers can detect parked domains and this is the biggest problem.
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Sounds like you need to be using one of those link checking programs that can actually tell if there have been changes to the site the link points to since its been checked last. A domain disappearing and morphing into a parked domain would be caught by something like that.

Curt:
@ muntealb, do you ONLY link to programs you have tested/tried?

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