This is some kind of a philosophical problem for me, and I have been 
thinking about this for months. It's not precisely about wwwoffle, but 
the practical consequences show up when using wwwoffle, so I post it 
here:

If my domain is foo.org should I put my webserver on www.foo.org or 
just on foo.org ?

Most people do it on both, but that is a really bad idea, becasue 
everything would need to be cached twice, also on all transparent 
proxies, company squids and home wwwoffle (I now you can do Alias, but 
why should I make users trouble). Also things like google page rank 
get dissipated, since some links point to one version and some to the 
other.

The webserver on one of them should just do a permanent redirect to 
the other, and that's what some do, like debian.org -> www.debian.org 
or gnu.org -> www.gnu.org

But some do it the other way, like: www.nongnu.org -> nongnu.org or 
www.openrbl.org -> openrbl.org

Which way is more philosophically correct, and which should be used?

The downfall of using www. prefix is that URL's get longer. 

But on the other hand sometimes we provide additional special services 
on other prefixes, and it seems logical that the main site should have 
some prefix too, as not to have a different number of dots in the 
hostname as the other services.
What I mean is that Debian provides:

www.debian.org          main site
packages.debian.org     pages of specific packages
bugs.debian.org         bug reports
lists.debian.org        mailing list archives

So it seems logical that the main site should use www.
while not to add www. to other hostnames which the organization 
provides.

This also makes it enough in the Purge section to write (as I don't 
ever want any of debian pages to purge):

<http://*.debian.org/*>                         age = -1

If they would use http://debian.org for their main site, and 
http://something.debian.org for others, we would have to put two lines:

<http://debian.org/*>                           age = -1
<http://*.debian.org/*>                         age = -1

What do you think about this?

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