[thelist] Subdomain name mapping

[Simon Coggins]

> You should have a page that does the redirect right now and inform people of
> the coming move if the new stuff is set up, otherwise maybe add a popup to
> inform folks of the pending change? If your ISP's SysAdmins are any good
> they'll have redirects already configured for the sites they are going to
> move.

The redirect page is already up, I've submitted the change to search
engines, and I've been trawling through the referrer logs and emailing the
webmasters of the main sites that link to me, but I'd like a bit more time
to make the transition smoother. Unfortunately I was only given three
weeks notice. The problem is at present they're just going to switch the
old site off. No redirects - nothing.

I'm trying to persuade them to provide redirects, but I just wanted to
check that it was possible to redirect between domains like that,
especially given the fact that the server that served the old page is
getting binned.

Simon