From: Don Porter <dgporter@erols.com>
Seems to me this is the dark side of acquisition. It prevents you from having total control over what URIs your web site exports to the world. All good web publishers know "Cool URIs don't change".
http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html
That ideal is difficult to achieve under normal circumstances, but it becomes near impossible when you lose control over what URIs you publish to the world, doesn't it?
It is a tradeoff. For the price of making resources available via redundant addresses, you get the ability to do things like apply themes to pages-- http://acquisition.com/documents/boring.html --can also be available as-- http://acquisition.com/themes/christmas/documents/boring.html In /themes/christmas you find a new standard_html_header which puts a gaudy red and green theme on the text, and contains an /images folder with christmas-oriented versions of the page decorations. There might also be a /themes/escher. Silly example, but it demonstrates what you get out of the deal. Mike.