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Re: More domain name confusion?
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From: Philipp K. J. <ja...@ie...> - 2009-09-23 14:15:45
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I don't think that we need to worry too much about Google page rank - except maybe for vanity reasons. If somebody is searching for "gnuplot", this person will find either gnuplot.info or gnuplot.sf.net, among the top 10 entries, regardless. It's a VERY specialized search term. Best, Ph. On Tuesday 22 September 2009 07:39:01 am pl...@pi... wrote: > 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? > > > > --- > > PM > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >----- Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, > > CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart > > your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and > > stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register > > now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf > > _______________________________________________ > > gnuplot-beta mailing list > > gnu...@li... > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnuplot-beta |
