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

[Sami Sundell]

On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 01:07:15PM +0200, Frederik 'Freso' S. Olesen wrote:

> If a domain is "freso.dk", then it should serve HTTP traffic on port
> 80, not through the "www" subdomain

Why? Of course, "domain" doesn't serve anything, there's always a
host behind the service.

> likewise, a domain "freso.dk" should handle mail traffic on port(s)
> 25/110/995/143/993 (on standard configurations).

Well, no. The domain may not have a single machine that is capable of
handling e-mail on any of those ports, but the mail may still be
received and sent using that domain in e-mail address.

> But as I said, as long as a link in MB works, there's no reason to
> change it - and that goes for both adding and removing "www" (or any
> other subdomain they may happen to use).

On that, we agree. 8)

-- 
 Sami Sundell
 sami.sundell at kotikone.fi