Re: why not remove www? Currently http://vim.org/ doesn't work

Hi donothing!

On Fr, 08 Apr 2011, donothing successfully wrote:

> On 8 April 2011 07:58, John Beckett <johnb.beckett@gmail.com> wrote:
> […]
> > whatever the merits, this is one of those situations where it
> > is not worth debating about some theoretical benefit of being
> > able to use vim.org without your browser deciding that it
> > doesn't work, so it should try www.vim.org instead.
>
> If you're averse to the theoretical, what about the
> practical?
>
> elinks 'http://vim.org/' — fails.
> lynx 'http://vim.org/' — fails.
> links2 'http://vim.org/' — fails.
> w3m 'http://vim.org/' — fails.
> wget 'http://vim.org/' — fails.
> vim 'http://vim.org/' — fails!
>
> A user may well assume the site is down if the url doesn't
> resolve.

Seconded. This had bugged me many many times with various browsers.

regards,
Christian

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