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I don't get it. It costs zero dollars a year to keep your blog on Blogger, a free blog publishing tool from Google, so why would anyone go out of their way to delete months or even years worth of work?

I can understand someone like Jim Hoft deleting his blog at the blogspot address because he moved it to a new publishing platform, although he should have made sure all of his archives were in the new place before redirecting readers to his new home.

I employ someone to periodically check every link in my archives and a number of my old posts (for example: Lots of water like chocolate) with links to old Gateway Pundit articles showed up as "Not Found" on his site. Nothing personal Jim, but I consider it quite rude to move to a new website without first making sure all of your old posts properly redirect.

Fortunately for my readers, I excerpted enough of his original article that they can see why I linked to him in the first place. I do this for the convenience of my visitors because I myself have been disappointed reading other blog articles where I found things like this: "Hey, want to see 32 naked college girls crammed into one bathtub? Click here." And when I click on the link, instead of reaching the intended article, I get a 404 error.