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Subject:	Re: New homepage for LUGNET
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general
Date:	Sat, 21 Feb 2004 15:26:40 GMT
Reply-To:	MATTDM@MATTDM.ORGavoidspam
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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? (20 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 (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)

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