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[Ruediger Landmann]

On 06/05/2010 11:38 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 17:14:36 +1000,
>    Ruediger Landmann<r.landmann at redhat.com>  wrote:
>    
>> The dilemma we face is the decision of when to turn off the 404
>> redirect. For the sake of all the existing links scattered around the
>> net (both on the Fedora Project site and off it), we'd want to postpone
>> this as far as possible. On the other hand, any bot attempting to verify
>> that link gets a page served up and probably concludes that the link is
>> valid; I suspect that if these links 404ed, they'd start to evaporate
>> from search results.
>>      
> Should code 301 be used for redirects to things that have moved? That code
> indicates that the redirect is permanent and that the new URL should be
> used going forward.
>    

Yes, absolutely. I've got a list from Google of incoming links, around 
which we can write a bunch of 301s. I'm working on this :)

Cheers
Rudi