Thanks for looking at this, Ralf... yes, we will certainly redirect
people... We're going to do an official announcement about the page to the
world this week.
regards,
stu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralf Schimmer [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 1998 8:20 AM
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> Subject: DC web pages old and new
>
> Hi Stu and Eric:
>
> After coming home from Washington I took my leisure to explore the
> new DC web pages that were announced at the conference. I was
> surprised that they reside under a new address different from the one
> previously known as the DC home page.
>
> And I was even more surprised when I found the old pages at
> http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core
> unaffected by the new outfit. There is no link and no nothing to
> point to the new pages. I consider this as a problem.
>
> And the other problem is that probably hundreds (if not thousands) of
> web pages world-wide link to the former home page. So you should
> perhaps take precautions that people are redirected to the new page
> even when the use the old address.
>
> Or did I miss something?
>
> Cheers,
> Ralf
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