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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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.publish)

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