Re: Date accessed notations

As I see it, the inclusion of "date accessed" is more important when
you are dealing with URLs that could be (are) more volatile. The
examples you give are likely to be stable for years to come. OTOH,
personal pages created by the likes of you and me, are, by nature
are less permanent than pages generated by the US Gov't. Thus, a
date accessed [as recorded in a citation] provides the reader some
idea of how valid the URL might be. If I see a URL accessed more
than five years ago, my confidence level drops considerably.
Besides, twenty years from now, MOST of the URLs given today will
not function at all!

Regards, Arnold
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Christopher Jahn...

I had referenced a City of Philadelphia page as one of my sources --
it was stable for several years, but six months ago they changed
their site and the page has moved.

Having the date enables the Webmaster to note that the page
references an older version of the website, and not the current
version. The webmaster can then consult the changelog to provide a
current URL for the information.

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