Replying to: Chris Wiles
About: Re: [netconnect] Voyager 3 feature request
Posted on: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:50:00 +0100
> The whole point of 'come.to' and 'surf.to' URL's is that they redirect to
> the 'proper' web site, depending on the location of that site. A bad example
> would be a porn site.
>
> To stop the site being closed down I guess they could keep the 'real' site
> moving from ISP to ISP or server to server and keep the
> http://come.to/pornsite/ with the redirection within the HTML code itself.
Another reason people use redirection URL's is to provide a URL that
it easier for people to remember. I used a surf.to URL for a while as
it made for a much better URL than the ones given by ISPs, although I
now have my own domain which looks much more professional.
Plus I never stayed with an ISP for very long anyway although not
because by site was 'dodgy' :)
When I test an ISP they generally run quite fast but once I start
using them as my main ISP they always seem to go downhill.
Enterprise, Zetnet and UKOL being prime examples. Although now I'm
using an ISP which is worse than all of them (screaming.net) but at
least I dont pay anything while I'm online which means the lack of
bandwidth is not as much of a problem as it would be if I paid while
I was connected.
Here's hoping screaming.net upgrade their pieces of string with some
real networking equipment some time soon :)
--
-------------------------------------------------
| Philip M. Beddoe (UK Administration) |
| VEI: Shania Twain International Online Fan Club |
-------------------------------------------------
| Longshot: Shania Twain Online Fan Club |
| http://www.shania.org |
-------------------------------------------------
_____________________________________________________________
NetConnect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send an 'unsubcribe'
message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
