Re: More domain name confusion?

[<pl...@pi...>]

Petr Mikulik wrote:
>> Given that today there is SourceForge, the need to host community projects 
>> on individual's accounts seems less pressing. As I said before, it would 
>> make sense to me to have gnuplot.sourceforge.net be the "canonical" site 
>> (and have gnuplot.info point to it), and to make Clark's site at VT a 
>> clearly designated mirror.
>>
>> Votes? Opinions? Discussion?
> 
> - I think www.gnuplot.info looks more "professional" than gnuplot.sf.net.
> 
> - The following link
>         http://www.gnuplot.info/demo
>   (notice the missing trailing slash) goes to:
> 	http://azog.bioinformatics.vt.edu:49280/demo/
>   but not
> 	http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo
> 
> - I think the VT site should have index.html with an immediate
>   redirection to www.gnuplot.info.

That would blow out any advantage of having a well ranked site with 
google. Once it gets a whiff of the redirection it will probably remove 
.info from it's listing and only refer to the target.


> 
> - It don't think the mirroring works correctly -- for example,
> 	http://www.gnuplot.info/download.html
>   still announces 4.2.5 instead of 4.2.6:
> 	http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/download.html
>   These problems are happening very often!

That is presumably something that can easily be corrected. Mirroring is 
not a new idea.

Clearly all efforts should be made to ensure an accurate mirroring.

regards.


> 
> - What are proposals following from this discussion?
>   A. Should www.gnuplot.info be an immediate redirect to sf.net?
>      Would  www.gnuplot.info/demo/  still work correctly in that case?
> 
>   B. Could the mirroring of www.gnuplot.info be finally fixed so that it
>      really works in 24 h intervals (or faster)?
>      Would a move to another server in the world help?
> 
>   Any other possibility?
> 
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> PM
> 
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