[Sigia-l] Subdomain usability

[Jonathan Baker-Bates]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org 
> [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Kenneth Bryson
> Sent: 09 June 2006 14:05
> To: sigia-l at asis.org
> Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Subdomain usability
> 
> I was more referring to the subdomain question whereby the 
> "yelling to your spouse from the kitchen 'just go to 
> finance.google.com'" test resuls in them typing 
> www.finance.google.com becuase they think the www part is 
> implicit.  In this case (just to give yahoo a break for a
> minute) resulting in a 404 error and the inevitable trip out 
> of the kitchen to help out the spouse.
> 

OK so we were talking about two separate things. I would think the issue
of whether "google.com" should always resolve to "www.google.com" would
be universally acknowledged by people on this list as being a good
thing, despite DNS gurus telling the world otherwise. I suppose I was
mainly attracted to Andrew's use of the words "evil stupidity" and
"guillotined" on this point, hence my off-topic reply.

I can't think of anything further to add on this thread though, mainly
because the weather is gorgeous outside here in London, so I'm going for
a walk in the park.

Jonathan


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