On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Peter Bittner <[email protected]> wrote:
> We all on this mailing list, however, are smart people, right? We are > technicians, aren't we? i bloody well hope so! > We all know that www is totally unnecessary in > front of any domain name. And we as software people, we understand > that plain domain names are much much more sexy than stupid www > preceeded domain names. 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 was always puzzled as to why the guys from blackcatnetworks didn't have a www. domain name (at all). i forget the logic, but i too was very confused by it, at the time, by their insistence that there *not* be a "www." domain. however, the logic of their argument sank in, at some deep level, and i then just followed it. i think the most compelling argument however is that it's a whopping 33% increase in letters to be typed. i'd rather that completely and utterly failed, teaching people *not* to waste their time by typing dubllew dubblew dubblew because they didn't f*****g well read what it said on the tin. if there exists a redirect, then people will start linking to that, typing that and so on. i. do. not. want. people. wasting. their. lives. typing. pointless. letters. especially. when. i. said. it. was. only. 8. letters. not. f*****g. 12. it said "pyjs.org", it f*****g well means "pyjs.org". why would you be so stupid as to insert a full 33% extra letters that were not even said or read??? why is this even being discussed... *instead* of developing pyjamas applications and/or improving the pyjamas code-base and/or the web site?? l.
