Gone

The requested resource
/path_to_file_or_directory
is no longer available on this server and there is no forwarding address. Please remove all references to this resource.

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It's pretty easy to cause a 410 - simply insert the following line in your .htaccess file:

Redirect gone /path_to_file_or_directory

Apache will then block access to the file or entire path. And it probably confuses people, too, since they won't have seen such an error before...