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Subj : The Open Root Server Confederation
To   : Jonathan De Boyne Pollard
From : Rich Wonneberger
Date : Mon Mar 19 2001 02:14 pm

*** Quoting Jonathan De Boyne Pollard to Rich Wonneberger dated 03-18-01 ***
> "www.ibm.com." is the name of a host.  The host has the name "www" 
> within the domain "ibm.com.".  But having one's HTTP server named "www"
> is merely a convention.  (Just as having one's NNTP server named "news"
> and one's SMTP server named "mail", are.)  There's nothing *forcing* 

Jonathan,

Now I see why FrontPage (sorry, Windy) sets up a www and a ftp directory for 
the server.  It doesnt set up mail or news though.  Guess its not a full web 
server.

Thanks for the lesson.  :}
Rich
I-Net   turtil@frontiernet.net


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