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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github
Domain
web-dev

Research direction

Start with the broken biopython.org/pipermail URL and compare it with the working lists.open-bio.org and mailman.open-bio.org aliases. Read related issues #19 and #32, then determine whether GitHub Pages can provide the required redirect; done means the reported archive links resolve automatically.

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Description

The single largest group of broken links reported via the Google webmaster tools, and also noted by @mmokrejs (see http://mailman.open-bio.org/pipermail/biopython-dev/2016-April/021345.html) are URLs like this:

http://www.biopython.org/pipermail/biopython/2011-January/006979.html

This page is still available via the primary OBF mailing list domain name:

http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/biopython/2011-January/006979.html

They are also available via this secondary alias:

http://mailman.open-bio.org/pipermail/biopython/2011-January/006979.html

Ideally we'd automatically redirect http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/* to http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/* which was easy under Apache, but becomes harder under GitHub Pages.

See also #19 and #32 for more general issues about broken links.

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