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On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 6:54 PM, Daniel Silverstone
<dsilvers@digital-scurf.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 18:22:45 +0300, Nagaev Boris wrote:
>> > I *LOATHE* it when people expect bare domains to be exactly the same thing as
>> > webservers.  I will see about inserting a shim for dealing with this kind
>> > of lazy typing at some point soon.
>>
>> Why to type this annoying "www."?
>> webserver can be distinguished from other services provided by a
>> domain by port used. 80 and 443 are for web. No need of special domain
>> for this.
>
> Because not all domains are hosted on a single system.  Pepperfish comprises
> over six computers.  The 'A' record on a domain is more about providing for bad
> mail systems which don't properly look up MX records (and yes these are
> plentiful).

GitHub must be comprising over thousands machines, but all pages of
more than 10.000.000 users are accessible via only one site name
(github.com). They don't create a subdomain for each user/repo. I
thing technical details (like which protocols are used) are even less
a reason to create a subdomain.

>From http://www.yes-www.org/ :

> The main non-technical reason I argue for leaving the www. in URLs is that it serves as a gentle reminder that there are other services than the Web on the Internet. Some of these, such as FTP and DNS, users typically use transparently without even realizing it.

The main idea of any technology is to do something useful without
exposing all details. You don't have to understand assembly language
to program in C. You don't have to undestand C to program in Lua. Why
do you have to understand how DNS and FTP works to visit a site?
(IMHO, FTP sites should be deprecated as well as www. prefix.)

> Still, since you lot are whingy, I've fixed the issue.
>
> D.
>
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Best regards,
Boris Nagaev