Hey I have a great idea! Why are we (luke?) paying for a domain name at all when one can just type in the ip address of the server? That will also prevent stupid people from accessing pyjamas and leave it to those born l33t enough to know the ip address by heart!
;) On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Lukasz Mach <[email protected]> wrote: > (04.02.2012 18:08), Peter Bittner wrote: >> 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. >> >> We all on this mailing list, however, are smart people, right? > > Right. But not everyone is polite > >> We are >> technicians, aren't we? We all know that www is totally unnecessary in >> front of any domain name. > > We also know, that optional www in front of any domain name won't do any > harm. > >> And we as software people, we understand >> that plain domain names are much much more sexy than stupid www >> preceeded domain names. > > Hmm, I think that "more sexy" is even worse argument against "www" than > Luke's moral objections. > > >> As pyjs.org is a site for technicials, but >> also non-tecchies have a right to find the site, we should of course >> also have a DNS entry for www.pyjs.org and redirect any requests to it >> to http://pyjs.org (using RedirectPermanent). >> >> I believe to have read that CAR has already done this in the >> configuration of the webserver. Now the DNS entry for stupid people is >> missing. I'm sure that will follow soon. So please stop talking >> excrements. > > So when I'm curious about the objections (yeah, I read Luke's posts > about it, but I can't understand it), I'm talking excrements? Are you > sure that *I am* talking excrements? > > -- > pozdrawiam > > Łukasz Mach > Pagema (http://www.pagema.net) -- ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
