Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 11:05:00 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@freebsd.org> Cc: webmaster@freebsd.org Subject: Re: http://www.freebsd.org Message-ID: <27274.855083100@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Feb 1997 11:05:34 %2B0100." <199702041005.LAA00902@vector.jhs.no_domain>
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> Hi webmaster@freebsd.org, > is http://freebsd.org/ > a long term usable address ? > or just something I tried that happened to work yesterday ? It's just the luck of the A record. > I'd like to quote a shorter address to people, both for the official pages, > & my personal http://freebsd.org/~jhs/ area, > > but I don't want to if it's likely to change or annoy someone ? It's bad, please don't do it. If we decide to move the web pages to a different host but leave services like `finger @freebsd.org' to work as expected, we will expect people to be following the www.freebsd.org pointer and your stuff will break. And yes, this could happen pretty much anytime. :-) Jordan
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