Greg Knaddison - GVS wrote:
You say that like DNS isn't flexible enough to handle www at http://example.com and mail.example.com records on different IPs. I have several such installations. This is pretty off-topic, but it's worth being right about the technical details if we're going to use them for the basis of drupal's behavior.
No, I'm saying that 'example.com' may not exists just for the web. I didn't say anything about flexibility, I'm talking about allocation of resources. I have mail.example.com I have ns.example.com I have gopher.example.com (Ok I don't actually but maybe I might) I have news.example.com Why does the WWW service get promoted directly to example.com? To save people from typing www. a bunch? Because 'www.' costs a lot of money in advertising? C'mon. The reasons that guy gives are utterly spurious. These are hardly valid.
Personally I'm with Freso - I see no point in the www and feel that the site should silently drop it if a user inserts it (much like drupal.org does).
-1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 MY domain. MY choice. I respect your choice to set your domain up the way you like. Force me to do this and I'll turn into a green monster and rampage all over you. This' *E VIL*.