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Re: Lego at Gerf.Org
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lugnet.publish
Date: 
Mon, 27 Sep 1999 21:18:16 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Matthew Miller writes:
> [...]
> I'm not saying all of this as a sneaky way to get around TLG's intentions.
> Just the opposite, actually. I think that for someone who understands a few
> basics of the DNS system and of URLs in general, it's clear that having
> "lego" in either your hostname or in your filename doesn't imply official
> sponsorship or in any other way cause confusion. ("Causing confusion" being
> a technical term. If people are confused because they're idiots, that's
> hardly _my_ fault. *large grin*)
> 
> > TLG shut down a site named  legowww.homepages.com  in 1995.
> 
> That's too bad. Doesn't fit with their own stated policy.

Maybe what they mean is simply 'lego' appearing anywhere between the initial
'http://' and the first standalone '/', i.e.

   http://in.this.area/but/not/in/this/area

?

--Todd



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(...) And, to beat the proverbial deceased large solid-hoofed herbivorous mammal a bit more, they _do_ say that what they're concerned with is confusion over just who owns/sponsors the site. It only takes an elementary understanding of the system to (...) (27 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.publish)

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(...) It could be. But it could also be a host name. I appeal to the FOLDOC: <URL:(URL) "domain" is most commonly used to refer to a group of computers whose hostnames share a common suffix, the domain name. The last component of this is the (...) (27 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.publish)

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