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

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

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

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)