On 01/02/2007 04:53 PM, Curtis Olson wrote:
> -- http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
>
>
> I have taken care of the first one ... didn't know google was still
> showing it in searches.
That doesn't really solve the users' problem.
Look at it from the naive users' point of view:
1) Google still points to the URL given above.
2) The URL given above doesn't solve the users' problem.
3) The error message on that document is unhelpful. It does
not give the users even a hint as to how to solve the problem.
Constructive suggestion: on the flightgear site, in the mailman directory,
there could be a .htaccess file containing the following line:
Redirect permanent /mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=1919
(That looks like two lines in the email, but it needs to
be one line in the .htaccess file.)
This means that
1) Google will rather soon figure out it should point to the
sourceforge list. When google receives an HTTP 301 Moved Permanently
result, google is persuaded by it. Google is not persuaded by
much else.
2) Any users -- no matter how naive -- who try to look at the wrong
site will be sent to the right site automagically. This works no
matter how they got there: via google, via out-of-date bookmark,
via out-of-date link from another page ... whatever.
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