Let's have the hostmaster do this. On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 7:42 AM, Marvin Renich <m...@renich.org> wrote:
> * MC Andre <andrew.penneba...@gmail.com> [150428 13:26]: > > No, the point is for **newbies** to be able to reach vim.org and have > > an automatic redirect to www.vim.org, without requiring any special > > user configuration. Tips like "modify your hosts file" assume the user > > is already an advanced user, defeating the whole purpose of this > > request. > > > > Could the DNS admin please drop in whatever configuration is necessary > > to achieve this redirect? > > No, the point is that in «http://example.org/some/page», example.org is > a host name, not a domain name or service name. This is by design. The > hostmaster is free to make www.example.org and example.org point to the > same host, if he desires, but it is not now, nor ever has been, > mandatory. If you are given a URL, use it; don't strip the leading www. > If you are not given a URL, Google for Vim to get the correct URL. This > is what I would expect a newbie to do. I see nothing wrong with not > having the domain name be a synonym for the web-serving host. > > This topic has been discussed on this list several times before, with > the same answer every time. If the hostmasters were so inclined, they > would have changed this already. > > ...Marvin > > -- > -- > You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "vim_dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Cheers, Andrew Pennebaker www.yellosoft.us -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
