Re: Older browsers, Mac, Safari pls. check site?

And lo, Mark Parnell didst speak in alt.www.webmaster:

> Presumably you mean http://dataspheric.com/directory/ - what's the point
> in obfuscating a URL?

A rather obvious one would be so you don't have a link in Google Groups
generating 404s for the rest of time, should you move the original
document.

Grey

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alt.www.webmaster:
> And lo, Mark Parnell didst speak in alt.www.webmaster:
>
>> what's the point
>> in obfuscating a URL?
>
> A rather obvious one would be so you don't have a link in Google Groups
> generating 404s for the rest of time, should you move the original
> document.

Perhaps, but that's what a 301 is for. :-)

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