Links in old posts broken

Question

I've been getting alerts from old threads where a poster complains about a post I made with a link and the link is broken.  Here's an example.  Finding back these posts hasn't been easy until I discovered the pattern.  The original link in the post was:
 http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2181939&SiteID=1
And it got altered, presumably during the forums site move to:
  http://forums.msdn.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2181939&SiteID=1
But it should have been altered to:
  http://forums.msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/clr/thread/e86ab11d-6325-4099-bbae-6fe165f20995/
Mapping the old PostID to the new Guid isn't exactly easy of course.  But the link still works if I remove the "msdn." portion of the link.  Could you please run a dbase update script that corrects all these broken links back to their original content.  It shouldn't be hard considering that a link that contains "forums.msdn" and "PostID" is always broken.
Hans Passant.

Answer 1

Looks good to me.
Your link here...
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/vbgeneral/thread/312ff4e4-755d-450c-9140-49145548a3dc
Where it says "this thread" and then later "correct link"... both go here:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/clr/thread/e86ab11d-6325-4099-bbae-6fe165f20995/
The link redirect issues have been fixed.
Thanks!
Ed Price (a.k.a User Ed), SQL Server Experience Program Manager (Blog,
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