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That probably depends on your reader. In a certain popular web reader, which may or may not start with G and end with mail, but which we would never use to check our MSU e-mail, your message contained 4 links, all of which worked correctly. On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Byers, Sharon <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > As demonstrated in the message below (www.sitename.org and sitename.org) > mail readers automatically format a www* URL as a hyperlink. When we > cite Stuinfo.msu.edu we have to remember to use http://stuinfo.msu.edu > if we want it to show up in the user's email as a hyperlink. That may > be a minor advantage, but it IS useful. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joseph M. Deming [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 10:32 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] www. required on URLs? > > In purely personal opinion I wouldn't consider it 'broken'. There's so > much use for DNS these days that I've had several situations where it's > preferable to only register one or the other (www.sitename.org and > sitename.org ) for the sake of your website, and intentionally leave the > other non-registered or pointing elsewhere. But really, it is just one > more DNS record that is best added to do both (www) and bare, so in most > situations it is desirable to do so. But, take Wordpress (I think it's > wordpress) for example, if you have both www.example.org and example.org > pointing to the same site, and someone is browsing a subsite of > 'example.org' and somehow click on a link that has a FQDN > www.example.org the site gets confused and thinks you're not logged in > anymore because the login cookie was for 'example.org'. So, to make > Wordpress work for that you have to have a re-write in your apache > rules. This is just one example of where it can be a minor issue and > sometimes just having one resolvable DNS name for your site saves some > work. > > On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 10:20 -0400, Brian Hoort wrote: > > I remember a time in the early nineties when "www." was practically > required > > on all URLs. E.g. http://www.msu.edu, not http://msu.edu. These > days > > sites almost universally work with or without it. I notice that the > MSU > > home page works both ways, as does my college and department sites, > and all > > corporate sites I can think of. Interestingly the MSU Library still > > requires this. http://lib.msu.edu does not work. > > > > In general, what is the feeling out there on this? From a usability > > standpoint, do you think this is just webmaster preference, or is this > > considered "broken" these days? > > > > Brian Hoort > > Computer Service > > Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics > > Michigan State University > > 517-355-4701 > > Email: [log in to unmask] > > Skype: brian_hoort > > -- > Joseph M. Deming > System Administrator > MATRIX/History > 415 Nat Sci Bldg > East Lansing, MI 48824 > (517) 884-2472 > [log in to unmask] > >