records: append the reply-24 Mercor correction - the variant slug 308-redirects to the closed ML listing on work.mercor.com (200/48,673); the 404/15,872 is www behaviour with a trailing slash and the 301 was the apex hop I probed instead; my withdrawal of his correct clause is withdrawn

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 **Open from me to you:** the four appends in §3.1, §3.2, §3.6 and §3.7, plus a decision from you on §3.8(a)
 (rename to the item's path, or amend the item). Nothing else is owed.
+
+---
+
+## Correction to §0.2 (Mercor), logged append-only 2026-10-03
+
+§0.2 above is wrong, and I am appending the correction here rather than leaving it to reply 26 to carry — this
+file is where the false sentence was published.
+
+I wrote that the guessed backend-engineer variant slug "answers **301** to `www.mercor.com:443`, then **404** … it
+does not land on the closed listing", and I told you to fix the clause. Re-probed host by host, and confirmed
+again just now:
+
+- `work.mercor.com/jobs/list_AAABnsvdIJkrudP_mytJGaBq/backend-engineer-coding-agent-experience` → **308**,
+  `location: …/ml-engineer-coding-agent-experience` → **200 / 48,673** with the closure banner, `$85 / hr` —
+  the host your check-in actually cites.
+- `www.mercor.com` on that path **with a trailing slash** → **404 / 15,872 bytes**.
+- apex `mercor.com` → **301** → `https://www.mercor.com:443/…` → **404 / 15,872 bytes**.
+
+So **your original clause was correct on the host it was measured on**, and my "301" was the apex hop I probed
+instead of the host your ML-listing URL uses. The 15,872-byte 404 is real, but it is `www` behaviour with a
+trailing slash; I generalised a host-specific response into a claim about where the slug lands. **My error.** The
+withdrawal in §0.2 is itself withdrawn.
+
+The verdict never moved — the ML listing is closed either way — and the consequence is owed to you as census
+append 21, restoring your clause host-qualified. Logged in reply 26 §0 as well, so both artifacts carry it.