On 19 May 2010 22:54, Bohdan Tashchuk <[email protected]> wrote: >> The server openbsd.org is actually cvs.openbsd.org, >> that is the main machine in Theo's basement. >> Nobody should ever use that one for anything. > > For many many years I've been typing > > example.com > > without leading www. Back in the 1990s nytimes.com didn't work, and www.nytimes.com did. But since then it's very rare for a "major" site to expect people to type the leading www. > > I've been tracking/using OpenBSD since around version 2.4 and I wasn't aware of the non-www distinction until the issue came up recently on misc. > > I suggest that there are many clueless people like me out there. The default behavior should be changed. opendbsd.org should redirect to www.openbsd.org, and the people who need to access the machine in Theo's basement should go to cvs.openbsd.org.
While I agree that what you *suggest* is a good idea, it's not up to us to say whether this *should* happen, because Theo doesn't owe us anything. Heck, if he prefers to type openbsd.org to reach the machine in his home, he's perfectly entitled to leave things as they are, even if they may thus be less obvious and/or comfortable for us hangers-on. kind regards, --ropers
