[Mimedefang] OT: www. and "lazy users" (was Re: DNS and MX records)

[Rob MacGregor]

On 5/15/06, Kelson <kelson at speed.net> wrote:
> David F. Skoll wrote:
> > (although it does have one, to catch people who are too lazy to type
> >  www. into their browsers.)
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> Am I the only one who finds this talk of "lazy users" a bit... I don't
> know, condescending?  (Admittedly, this is on a list made up of
> sysadmins, so I suppose that's par for the course.)

No, you're not.

I know plent of sites that advertise themselves as
"http://domain.com".  As you say, the use of the "www." prefix is
convention, not out of some technical need.

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