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Subscriber linksSubscriber linksPosted Sep 19, 2012 13:17 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1)In reply to: The coming robot apocalypse by njwhite Parent article: The coming robot apocalypse Subscriber links expire when the article itself become freely available. Thus far, few people have noticed the expiration happening...:)
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Subscriber links Posted Sep 19, 2012 14:12 UTC (Wed) by njwhite (subscriber, #51848) [Link]
Couldn't they 301 back to the original article? Or would that add up to too much extra stuff to keep track of.
Subscriber links Posted Sep 19, 2012 14:18 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] That is, in fact, exactly what they do; the links never break, they just cease to be relevant. (If you look at a subscriber link URL, you'll see that it has the original article number in it so the redirect can be done without us having to actually remember that the special link ever existed).
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