Re: More domain name confusion?

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> > - 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.

I don't see any advantage of having "www.gnuplot.vt.edu" on top of google 
nowadays. It's no longer the primary site as it was 10 years ago.

> > 
> > - 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.

It seems that it cannot be easily corrected -- these mirroring problems 
occur for several years.

> Like others, I thank Clark Gaylord for his history of the gnuplot
> domain issue, and more substantively, for all the work he has done
> on behalf of gnuplot.

I agree.

Unfortunately, the mirroring does not work. Therefore:

> > - 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?


It seems that "www.gnuplot.info" should not be a redirect to gnuplot.sf.net,
but an independent site. Then there are two possibilities:

A. gnuplot.sf.net stays the main editable site, the new gnuplot.info its
   mirror.
B. new gnuplot.info sites is the main editable site, gnuplot.sf.net is its
   redict (I don't think it makes sense to have a mirror)
C. let DNS of gnuplot.info point to gnuplot.sf.net (is this feasible?)

Requirements:
A. - many people have access to gnuplot.sf.net (organized by sf accounts), 
     less people have account on new gnuplot.info
   - mirroring works reliably and fast
     (max 12 h delay or sync can be launched on demand by a special e-mail, 
     touching a special file, or whatever the current technology allows)

B. - many people have access to this account

What are your votes?

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