On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Thomas Bächler <[email protected]> wrote: > Aaron Griffin schrieb: >> >> Broke and fixed and broke and fixed mailman tonight. Ignore the goofed >> commits emails you may have gotten. >> >> For documentation purposes, here's what happend: >> >> * A few days ago we added a redirect from archlinux.org to >> www.archlinux.org to address some silly caching issues.\ > > Out of curiosity: Why? I hate that every site has to have "www" in front of > it, it's silly. Why don't we just have a redirect from www.archlinux.org to > archlinux.org?
I'm on your side here, but in all honesty, it's arbitrary. More people on the bug report were for www than not, and Dan got to it first. Why I hate "www": * world wide web... who says that anymore? * For every other service, people are totally fine with using the domain name and letting it decide what to do: ssh archlinux.org NOT ssh ssh.archlinux.org; mailto [email protected] NOT mailto [email protected]; ping archlinux.org NOT ping icmp.archlinux.org; I can go on and on and on. The only benefit I've heard here is relating to using a CNAME for the website DNS, allowing us to redirect web traffic easier, for downtime and the like, but that seems minor, and we can always change an A record too. /me shrugs
