On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:44:07 +1200
Andrew Errington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:13, you wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 07:49:00PM +1200, Don Gould wrote:
> > > RTFM the web site... http://www.clug.net.nz/ isn't the right answer at
> > > present.
> >
> > How about leaving off the totally redundant and stupid waste of 4
> > characters "www." and let the resource specifier "http" do the work for
> > you? :-) Not that that has anything to do with the problem, of course.
> 
> Actually, I'm curious.  Can someone please explain why some sites won't 
> work *unless* you provide the redundant and stupid 'www.' portion?
> 
> For example (in FireFox):
> 
> http://jaycar.co.nz           Does not work
> 
> http://www.jaycar.co.nz               Does work
> 
> There are other sites like that, and this is just one example to illustrate 
> my point.
> 
> Andrew

DNS.

Depends if jaycar.co.nz resolves or not. If it does, then you'll be sent there. 
It's that simple.


Steve

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