From: (no name) (no email)
Date: Thu Jul 13 2006 - 12:32:07 EDT
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:48:55 EDT, "Patrick W. Gilmore" said:
>
> On Jul 13, 2006, at 11:35 AM, Larry Smith wrote:
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> >> Is it? If you type "fobar" and the domain does not exist, is it rude
> >> to return foobar? Or is it helpful?
> >
> > Hmmm, while a "good" question - how about another example,
> > someone mistypes whitehouse.gov - do you return the "real"
> > whitehouse.gov or
> > the whitehouse.com site ???
>
> Note: "and the domain does not exist". Whitehouse.gov absolutely
> exists.
So... I enter "whitehorse.gov". Who wins, the guy at 1600 Pennsylvania,
or the guy who's got whitehorse.com parked at GoDaddy?
I can see this as being *loads* of fun in combination with browsers
that auto-complete URLs for you (I know of at least one that will keep
auto-completing a typo in preference to what you *wanted*. Blech. ;)
"Where do you want to go today?" :)
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