Dave's from New York too. Dave was of course referring to one of the stories that he was instrumental in bringing to our attention and which I cited in my The Doc Searls Weblog : Rotten Linkage backlink.

Linkrot is one of the banes of my life especially when at work my students use their own web-space to prepare and submit their group work for my Computer Architecture and Design class. Since much of the student work is of sufficiently high quality to merit dissemination to later cohorts of students, linkrot that set in within little more than a year was becoming a major PITA.