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State of Mississippi Breaks All Its URLs

Carl Malamud noticed that the State of Mississippi relaunched their web site and INVALIDATED EVERY SINGLE URL!

The generic 404 error message delivered by the state’s website says:

The SOS site has recently been redesigned and relaunched and the addresses for most pages and files have now changed

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