Re: your mail

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From: Philip Newton
Subject: Re: your mail
Date: 08:37 on 03 Sep 2003
On 3 Sep 2003 at 2:20, Simon Cozens wrote:

> Mark Fowler:
> > I hate software that doesn't map http://theirdomainname.com to
> > http://www.theirdomainname.com.
> 
> simon-cozens.org is The Only A Record for my web site, and rightfully
> so. Why the hell do you think you need a www. to tell you you're
> getting the site via the World Wide Web? 

Because some people think that domain names shouldn't be host names?

www.example.com is, conceptually (at least for me), a host named 'www' 
in the domain 'example.com'. example.com is, um a host name '' in the 
domain 'example.com'?

> If it's a web server, where else is it going to be?

On a host that has a name separate from its domain name?

Whether it's called "www" or "web" (as in http://web.mit.edu/ -- though 
they seem to have switched over to www.mit.edu the last time they 
looked; originally, that hostname wasn't used at all, then it was some 
student organisation) or "welcome" isn't that important.

> What next? rsync://rsync.foo.com?

Why not? Funet's rsync services are on rsync.nic.funet.fi. But 
rsync://server123.foo.com would make sense to me, too. rsync://foo.com, 
not so much.

> Do you ssh to ssh.yourhost.yourdomain.net?

No, because "yourhost" is already a hostname, so I don't see a need to 
add "ssh" in front.

Cheers,
Philip
-- 
Philip Newton <pnewton@xxx.xx>

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