[mb-users] Website urls: to www. or not

[Olivier]

Recently, some editors have been editing existing urls (official
sites, etc) as to remove the www. part of the site addresses.
As far as I can tell, the only argument used to do that was that "it
is shorter".

While I have absolutely no opinion if or not "the shorter the better",
I'm strongly opposed to this trend.

It seems that the editors doing that have little understanding about
the DNS system, web server configuration, domain aliasing, browsers
behavior, or the intarweb at large: this of course is not a defect on
their part! Not everybody has to be a geek ;)

Now, without going into a boringly long technical explanation, may I
ask people *not to* remove the "www." part from existing urls?
This is just bad, is likely to break things, and really has no benefit.

Thanks!

- Olivier