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[Daniel Stone]

On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 13:31 -0500, Carl Worth wrote:
> > Personally, I think the main fd.o site should be static (well, generated
> > from WML or something, in a shared repository), but that would kind of
> > require a web team who are good at this sort of thing -- volunteers?
> 
> That sounds quite reasonable. And it's exactly the ability to make a
> change like this that makes me want to eliminate all the "/wiki"
> implementation details.

I see your point, but it's incredibly difficult to do properly.

> There's a similar issue with mail archives, where again, persistent URLs
> are important. Even the archives themselves often end up with links to
> previously archived messages. And the recent efforts to switch from
> pipermail to mhonarc again point out the benefits of not leaking the
> implementation out.

Agreed -- they should certainly live forever.  RedirectMatch certainly
does a very good job of 'you know this thing?  it's over *here*
now ...'.