[BNM] [Fwd: www or no www]

[Antony Jones]

It's very hard not to be a pedantic asshole when you are in fact a
pedantic asshole.
I know this, because I fit into the category above. I actually blocked
IE users from my site entirely, but then i'm not a business so I can do
that :P

Aegir is completely right. Be as open and accessible as possible.

Ant

On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 11:55 +0100, Aegir Hallmundur wrote:

> 2008/10/21 Mat Walker <lists at four0four.net>
> 
> > I'd like to change. Our IT team have told me that it is bad practice to
> > not use the www, and because we host the site ourselves and the domain
> >
> 
> Ask them if they can educate everyone who might visit the site to make sure
> they put it in? We had this with an IT bod who made sure URLs without a
> terminating slash wouldn't work, because it wasn't 'good practice'.
> Unless they have any other subdomains that are vital, they've no reason not
> to make the bare domain redirect to www. Is it worth losing customers for
> what is basically an abstract nicety?
> 
> -- 
> Aegir Hallmundur
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