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Re:Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious by spc476 on Monday July 20, 2020 @05:10PM (#23901945)
I use it to mark pages that I have taken down for good [1]. I have also used 418 ("I'm a teapot") response code on my gopher server to discourage web bots from attempting to index the site.

Edit--added note

[1] For all the good it does. I just checked my logs and I still see requests for pages I marked as "gone" 15 years ago.

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