Re: Sunsite's Policy On Domain Names

[Christian Reiniger <warewolf@mayn.de>]

Paul Tiseo wrote:

>>I just hope that you do not decide to waste all the efforts by dumping
>>SunSITE because of the lgdc.org domain hosting.

Surely not

>>At our last staff meeting, I brought the subject up.  The rules are
>>very clear:  we do not accept domain hosting, and to make this clearer
>>and easier to enforce, we also do not want to be "masked out" by some
>>proxy-like system.

Ok.

>>It is ok to setup the lgdc.org domain to redirect to SunSITE, and to
>>setup mirrors of the lgdc site, but unless you keep
>>http://sunsite.auc.dk/lgdc as your primary site, I am afraid the staff
>>group will rule that lgdc does not appreciate our service, and will be
>>"closed".

>with our current plans: mirror content such as articles & tutorials to
>sites interested and keep *really* dynamic content such as web-based
>threaded discussion on sunsite. Esben, my main contact, has been very
>responsive and helpful. He is genuinely interested in helping linux
>projects and I have enjoyed his efforts on our behalf. He has set up
>phpPolls, phpMyAdmin and Phorum at my request over the lst few weeks,
>amongst many other things he surely has to do to keep other groups happy.
>
>	Once we are gold, we can look into a lgdc.org redirect, but apparently,
>the sunsite url ultimately cannot be masked. I guess this is an issue that
>should be addressed by the group, because we were once speaking of doing
>that...
>
>	Does anyone have a problem with www.lgdc.org being just a redirect?

Well, yes. I very much prefer having it as mirror of sunsite.auc.dk/lgdc/,
as that allows visitors to stay at the same domain when they follow (most)
internal links.
A simple redirect is IMHO confusing.


	Christian
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