If you are in charge of a website, please test your links before I get e-mails about your out-of-date or simply WRONG links.

ESPECIALLY test your links if you just guesstimate a URL by replacing bits of it. The class schedule hasn't been at that address for a year, so Spring 2006 course schedules are DEFINITELY not going to be on there. I think we had old schedules up at the address for a while, but they were removed when we were out of those terms. Don't just replace 200501 with 200601 and assume it works without testing.

And users of a web site, when you see an error that states something along the lines of:

"The document you requested was not found (error 404). This was caused by a broken link from [idiot webmaster's page]. Please contact the person(s) in charge of that page and request that the link be updated."

Please don't e-mail me about it. The best I can do is tell you where the page you want is located (well, if you tell me what you were looking for, or I can deduce it from the URL you requested), and ask you to tell the owner of the referring page to fix her link.

You could follow the instructions in the error message that say, basically, "Use the search box below, or look at the nav bar on the left.". If you glance to the left, you should notice a link called "Schedule Planning Center". Hint: This has course schedules.

Cross-posted to techsupport.