On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
Aaron Griffin schrieb:
Broke and fixed and broke and fixed mailman tonight. Ignore the goofed commits emails you may have gotten.
For documentation purposes, here's what happend:
* A few days ago we added a redirect from archlinux.org to www.archlinux.org to address some silly caching issues.\
Out of curiosity: Why? I hate that every site has to have "www" in front of it, it's silly. Why don't we just have a redirect from www.archlinux.org to archlinux.org?
I'm on your side here, but in all honesty, it's arbitrary. More people on the bug report were for www than not, and Dan got to it first. Why I hate "www": * world wide web... who says that anymore? * For every other service, people are totally fine with using the domain name and letting it decide what to do: ssh archlinux.org NOT ssh ssh.archlinux.org; mailto aaron@archlinux.org NOT mailto aaron@email.archlinux.org; ping archlinux.org NOT ping icmp.archlinux.org; I can go on and on and on. The only benefit I've heard here is relating to using a CNAME for the website DNS, allowing us to redirect web traffic easier, for downtime and the like, but that seems minor, and we can always change an A record too. /me shrugs