New WWW mirror page clashes

Noel D. Torres Tan~a ndtt at ll.iac.es
Mon Feb 23 09:12:16 CET 2004


Lorenzo Cappelletti wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> the recently added <http://www.gnupg.org/mirrors.html> page that lists 
> the WWW mirros actually shows a FTP mirror list, i.e. the very same 
> /download/mirrros.html.  This happens because /mirrors.html used to show 
> the FTP mirrors.  When I moved it to /download/mirrors.html, a 
> redirection directive was introduced to the web server configuration as 
> to avoid dead links.
> 
> Now, the question is: should the new page be renamed/moved to another
> place or should it stay where it sits?  I would agree with the latter,
> because a user who finds an old link for the FTP mirror page (i.e.,
> /mirrors.html) can click on the link at the top and go to the right
> /download/mirrors.html page.  In other words, old and new pages are
> about the same topic: mirroring.
>  

The best idea, at least for me, is to change the name of the new page, 
calling it e.g. webmirrors.html

Noel




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