LYNX-DEV Re: wash'n post text/html problems

[Philip Webb]

i've just checked out wp, using
 www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/m-frontpage.html
which gets the main stories of the day.  from there there's a link
to the A Section  -/-/-/m-frontsect.html , which works ok.
the url you give below (with numbers) is "not found";
there's no straightforward way of looking at stories from earlier days.

however, i also found that their Search Page is broken somehow:
using their link from their Home Page
 -/-/-/searches/mainsrch.htm  leads to delays &/or "bad HTML" messages:
using backslash the source has a lot of image stuff, which may well be
incorrectly written. 
  
i've sent a firm, but i hope polite, comment to their e-address
informing them of these facts & asking them to make their site
fully text-friendly:  address@hidden .

Washington Post is an excellent newspaper -- don't miss today's story
on the Canadian anti-Cuba-boycott boycott ... ;-)  -- & hopefully
other Lynx-devers will examine the problem & bring polite pressure to bear.
please feel free to send more info re the problem to me &/or lynx-dev:
there are subscribers who are far more expert than me.
> 
> thank you, but in fact the problem has been occurring over the last
> several weeks as they change various sections to their new format.  I
> first noticed it with the Federal pages, and then it started occurring on
> other sections.  For example, the section called Mike Causi's federal
> diary.  I can get to it, but when I click on the articles, I get an error
> message, for example Friday's article called buyouts with a twist.  The
> url for that article is http://www.washington
> post.com/../wp-srv/WPlate/1996-12/13/113L-
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.  I have a call into the Post,
> but so far they have not responded with an answer.
> 
> Dave Mischel
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