Our broken link policy (if we couldn't resolve the problem ourselves with Googling) was to write to the owner of the project listing, wait two weeks, send a reminder, wait five more days, then delete the listing if there was no response. The only time we would just delete a listing was when we couldn't track down any contact information for it. I apologize if you experienced anything other than this, it wasn't how we normally did things.

I worked at freshmeat for fifteen years, and was surprised and saddened by today's news. I wrote down a few thoughts, if anyone would benefit from some behind-the-scenes perspective: http://jeffcovey.net/2014/06/1...