> > <META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="3; URL=the new one"> > > > > Isn't automation wonderful? Someone told me once that it was > > what computers were designed for.
> "Well, Billy, it's like this: Sometimes you put a transition support > piece in place for a short period, but it's really more effective to ask > people to go to the right place in the first place, so eventually you > can take the transition support piece out after a while. It adds up to > fixing the base problem, not just being satisfied with camoflaging the > symptoms." Heh. I wish you luck. I changed my site from Freeserve to a German provider some four years ago. Every single page had a redirector to send people to the new one. Not only do I still get hits coming in that way - I also get people creating _NEW_ links to the old site. Google freely admit that the "link:" search mechanism is broken - I assiduously search for sites linking to my old one once a month and always find two or three. Of those, two will be old sites that Google hasn't found before and one, sometimes two, will be a completely new link. And getting the DMOZ editor to delete your entry .. I could write a book. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.com +44 7785 302 803 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
