[Doc-SIG] Old versions of the docs on python.org

[Aahz]

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003, Garth Kidd wrote:
> Fred Drake:
>>
>> We've been working on cleaning up python.org lately.  There 
>> are a lot of old versions of the Python documentation on the 
>> site; I'd like to remove versions which predate 1.5.2 from 
>> the website (not from the FTP archive, though).
>
> I suggest keeping them on the site, but adding META tags suitable for
> preventing search engines from indexing them. People will thus be
> funnelled to the main documentation because that's where the search
> results will point, but those specifically interested in the old stuff
> will be able to read it without going to the hassle of downloading the
> full set with FTP.

+1 -- provided anyone has the time to do it
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