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Re: why www?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Taylor)
Fri Dec 15 03:35:04 1995

From: Nick Taylor <taylorn@gb.swissbank.com>
To: sjk@amazon.com (Shel Kaphan)
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 95 8:17:10 GMT
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <199512141739.JAA25898@bert.amazon.com>; from "Shel Kaphan" at Dec 14, 95 9:39 am
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org

Shel Kaphan said:
> 
> Well, that's the way I read it to, for what it's worth.  The most
> obvious reading of what you said is that you meant "www" has something
> to do with what port is used.  It's actually much harder to interpret
> your sentence to mean only that the hostname part of the URL is resolved to a
> particular IP address...
> 
Sure, point taken, it wasn't very clear. I wasn't having a good day,
was I?  :-)

But that's what I meant.

Regards,
Nick.

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