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Originally Posted by smudge
Do you find this happens thou? We find a customer upgrades from their old site to our new one. We get requests for their old system's "something.asp" from Google and Bing for, in some cases a year or more later. Even thou we've been returning 404 all that time.
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To be honest, I haven't really followed up very much on the ones I've seen, and at the time it sounded like it should have been enough.
I'm not sure 503 would have been suitable either - but perhaps 410 Gone [1] is a better choice? (Assuming Google/Bing/et all know what it means)
[1] "Indicates that the resource requested is no longer available and will not be available again." -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes