Peter Bittner writes: > 2012/2/3 Lukasz Mach <[email protected]>: > > (03.02.2012 21:33), Amit Deshwar wrote: > >> Can someone explain to me the moral objection to www? > > > > Yeah, I would also like to know why ... > > Who the hack did say anything against 'www'? > > Personally, I believe 'www' is stupid and sites that work _only_ with > www are stupid too. Typically, when I configure a site I make it > reachable with the plain domain name, and I redirect all requests to > the plain domain name to www.sitename.tld. I do that for sites for > stupid people, commerical sites. Because I believe that stupid people > expect www. in front of a domain name.
You know what I think is stupid? People who equate HTTP (aka, the Web) with the Internet. When working in IT support, I hate it when I get questions like, "is the Internet on?" Or similar questions that scream, in the asker's mind, WWW == Internet. But we at pyjs.org, being smart people, being technicians, understand the difference. We know that organizations that operate an Internet domain might have many services, in addition to HTTP. We may have a mail server, an FTP server, a SSH gateway through a firewall. A VPN. Maybe Cloud file-sharing services. Hell, we may even run a gopher server. We, the smart people, not the dumb ones, know the Internet runs hundreds of services, hosted by many, many servers. So, let us, the smart ones, assume HTTP is being run on a server with the IP address of the A (or CNAME) record of the domain. Dan
