Re: Use example.com/org when giving example hostnames, please!

2012-03-22 Thread Brad Alexander 
But mpaa.org and riaa.org are full of dummies... :)

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:00 PM, baloo ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
 On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Curt Howland howl...@priss.com wrote:
 It was written:
 Just a heads up, EXAMPLE.COM and EXAMPLE.ORG are reserved as dummy names
 for giving example hostnames.  This avoids linking to other sites that do
 exist (domain.com) or are not work safe (xxx.com) unintentionally.

 I often use MPAA.org or RIAA.org so that the spammers have something
 nice and juicy to chew on.

 Hah, choice!  I recommended example.com and example.org because
 they're actually the IANA-designated dummy names.


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Use example.com/org when giving example hostnames, please!

2012-03-21 Thread Paul Johnson 
On Mar 20, 2012 11:49 PM, 严海东 handlerofmas...@gmail.com wrote:

 Dear all:
 I have a problem with using wget and curl on debian amd64
 when I type a command -- wget www.XXX.com, error messages
 will display as below:

Just a heads up, EXAMPLE.COM and EXAMPLE.ORG are reserved as dummy names
for giving example hostnames.  This avoids linking to other sites that do
exist (domain.com) or are not work safe (xxx.com) unintentionally.

Re: Use example.com/org when giving example hostnames, please!

2012-03-21 Thread Curt Howland 
It was written:
 Just a heads up, EXAMPLE.COM and EXAMPLE.ORG are reserved as dummy names
 for giving example hostnames.  This avoids linking to other sites that do
 exist (domain.com) or are not work safe (xxx.com) unintentionally.

I often use MPAA.org or RIAA.org so that the spammers have something
nice and juicy to chew on.

Curt-


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Re: Use example.com/org when giving example hostnames, please!

2012-03-21 Thread baloo 
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Curt Howland howl...@priss.com wrote:
 It was written:
 Just a heads up, EXAMPLE.COM and EXAMPLE.ORG are reserved as dummy names
 for giving example hostnames.  This avoids linking to other sites that do
 exist (domain.com) or are not work safe (xxx.com) unintentionally.

 I often use MPAA.org or RIAA.org so that the spammers have something
 nice and juicy to chew on.

Hah, choice!  I recommended example.com and example.org because
they're actually the IANA-designated dummy names.


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