Posted by Andy Dingley on 10/15/07 10:23

On 12 Oct, 12:56, David Segall <da...@address.invalid> wrote:
> I have some pages on my web site that are no longer useful

What's "obsolete" ?

If they're actually harmful, then kill them quickly. Ideally serve a
301 redirect to a holding page, otherwise let your 404 mechanism cope
with them. A custom 404 for one section of the site that contains the
majority of these is quick and easy to set up, and can be a bit more
helpful than your vanilla site-wide 404 page.

If they're not harmful, just leave them be. There's no implicit reason
to remove content, certainly not if you'd have to do significant work
to get rid of it. Storage is cheap, especially if you're not having to
serve it.

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