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Re: New homepage for LUGNET
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lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general
Date: 
Sat, 21 Feb 2004 15:26:40 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm#spamcake#.org
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Tim Courtney <tim.courtney@SPAMCAKE.zacktron.com> wrote:
For branding purposes, I think this is a bad idea for LUGNET. Someone
could then advertise their site as "blah.lugnet.com," and have it
interpreted as an actual part of LUGNET. With this content outside of
LUGNET's control, the name could be abused.

Also, on a practical level, doing redirects (not just DNS records) as
subdomains would be prohibitively expensive with the current Lugnet
hosting arrangement.



--
Matthew Miller           mattdm@mattdm.org        <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux      ------>                <http://linux.bu.edu/>



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  Re: New homepage for LUGNET
 
(...) I don't know anything about current situation, but this is beyond my imagination? What's that 'expensive' on one dns record and one mod_rewrite line in Apache config? (21 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)

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  Re: New homepage for LUGNET
 
(...) Too much grunt work. The technical solution is too easy not to implement. (...) I agree that anyone should be able to submit a link for consideration, but I believe (strongly) that an administrator should have to approve links to be publicly (...) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)

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