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Mar 1st 2003, 6:14 am

#16

Ranjini

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Re: new INS website

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Originally posted by Mrtravel
steggy wrote:
    >
    > grinn......isn't it horrible....even that they cannot achieve.
    >
    > Even the main site: http://www.ins.usdoj.gov
    >
    > does not do anything.
    > --

Well, www.ins.usdoj.gov gives a 404 message and the new link.
Stupid people. They should have sent a 3xx type redirect message.
Of course, www.immigration.gov is unreachable although immigration.gov
does send a redirect message to www.immigration.gov.

That was scary... you try to access the all-familiar INS website and suddenly... poof ... it's gone. No forwarding address either

Mar 1st 2003, 7:33 am

#17

Scout

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Posts: 1,216

Thanks L D. It was waaaaaaaay too early for me this morning to try and focus on anything, lol.

Cheers,

Leslie

Mar 3rd 2003, 8:32 pm

#18

Mrtravel

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Re: new INS website

steggy wrote:
    >
    > ccqiu wrote:
    > >
    > > http://www.immigration.gov/
    > >
    > > will take effect -- hopefully in the next 15 minutes...
    > >
    > > March 1st, INS officially retires and becomes part of DHS.
    > >
    > > Anyone is missing INS? probably not many.
    > >
    > > --
    > > Posted via http://britishexpats.com
    >
    > That site is working for days already.
    > --
    > steg

It wasn't working on Friday.
If you knew the rest of the directory path you could get there, but you
couldn't get there simply by entering http://www.immigration.gov/. Oddly
enough INS doesn't even know how to redirect traffic from the old
domain. Instead they post a link on the old site telling you where the
new site is.

Mar 3rd 2003, 8:45 pm

#19

Steggy

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Re: new INS website

mrtravel wrote:
    >
    > steggy wrote:
    > >
    > > ccqiu wrote:
    > > >
    > > > http://www.immigration.gov/
    > > >
    > > > will take effect -- hopefully in the next 15 minutes...
    > > >
    > > > March 1st, INS officially retires and becomes part of DHS.
    > > >
    > > > Anyone is missing INS? probably not many.
    > > >
    > > > --
    > > > Posted via http://britishexpats.com
    > >
    > > That site is working for days already.
    > > --
    > > steg
    >
    > It wasn't working on Friday.
    > If you knew the rest of the directory path you could get there, but you
    > couldn't get there simply by entering http://www.immigration.gov/. Oddly
    > enough INS doesn't even know how to redirect traffic from the old
    > domain. Instead they post a link on the old site telling you where the
    > new site is.

Yeah and that worked didn't it? Worked for me. I did notice
today that the search function does not work.
--
steg