To be honest, 4Sword, I think the old site should be archived and moved out of the way. Its purpose just staying there was to provide an easy "revert" solution in case if 2.x went bad, right? None of the features from the 1.x era are in use on this forum and we've accommodated with that at this point. Well, at least, until you let the *cough*cmscomebackwhichmightneverhappen*cough*, then we won't have anything.
You know, leave the forums at its current URL and just make .com a redirect indefinitely. Besides, having the old forum there is a security hazard. Imagine an exploit rising up on 1.x(which is very likely) and some jerk comes in and tries taking advantage of that? I don't know if it's such a good idea to leave the old forum up like that.
If accessibility is your concern, then I guess you could leave your e-mail open publicly(if it isn't already?)... Idk man. Just my two cents.