Yup Simon, I think you've misunderstood. Paul will correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it the old links will continue to work even after a sponsor has switched to the new system. The only gotcha is that using the old links won't allow you to utilize the additional reports available with the new system for tracking those links.
The scenario that I forsee is that when a particular sponsor moves to the new system most of us will start using the new links for anything we add from that point forward. Some existing links may also get changed if it's not difficult to do so, but we're all probably going to have a mix of old and new style links out there on the Interwebs for quite some time. The new links will gather the full range of data available in the new system, and the old links will still track as they have been.
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