Marilyn vos Savant on "WWW"

In this week's Parade magazone, Marilyn vos Savant discussed how to replace
"www" in normal conversation, since the three letters are a mouthful. The
reader response she gave was to replace "www" with "web", so the
pronunciation of www.google.com becomes web dot google dot com. Evidently
she (or her assistant) didn't know that "web" could qualify as a subdomain
(or not) and a user who types "web" instead of the intended "www" would be
given the inncorrect (or non-existant) page.

Anyone have a conversational alternative to "www"?
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On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 17:34:19 GMT, "Michael Wilcox"
<mjwilcoCANTHAVESPAM (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:

In this week's Parade magazone, Marilyn vos Savant discussed how to replace
"www" in normal conversation, since the three letters are a mouthful. The
reader response she gave was to replace "www" with "web", so the
pronunciation of www.google.com becomes web dot google dot com. Evidently
she (or her assistant) didn't know that "web" could qualify as a subdomain
(or not) and a user who types "web" instead of the intended "www" would be
given the inncorrect (or non-existant) page.

Anyone have a conversational alternative to "www"?

How about "triple w"?

Leslie

Michael Wilcox wrote:

Anyone have a conversational alternative to "www"?

"All the double-yous [dot] google dot com"

However, for most web sites you can just leave out the "www" anyway.
Sensible DNS admins tend to just use www.example.org set to "CNAME
example.org" or vice versa.

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In this week's Parade magazone, Marilyn vos Savant discussed how to replace
"www" in normal conversation, since the three letters are a mouthful. The
reader response she gave was to replace "www" with "web", so the
pronunciation of www.google.com becomes web dot google dot com. Evidently
she (or her assistant) didn't know that "web" could qualify as a subdomain
(or not) and a user who types "web" instead of the intended "www" would be
given the inncorrect (or non-existant) page.

Anyone have a conversational alternative to "www"?

Wuh Wuh Wuh.

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Somewhere around 11/2/03 9:34 AM, Michael Wilcox typed wildly with
reckless abandon:

Anyone have a conversational alternative to "www"?

I sometimes say "dub dub dub" dot whatever, people tend to know what I'm
talking about. Most of the time though, you can leave the www out of an
address, so just say google.com.

--
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but rather, 'hmm.... that's
funny...'. - Isaac Asimov

Anyone have a conversational alternative to "www"?


How about "triple w"?

nope, don't go with triple w, how about w cubed ?

On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 17:53:14 GMT, Leslie <garbage123 (AT) bessiebee (DOT) com>
wrote:

On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 17:34:19 GMT, "Michael Wilcox"
mjwilcoCANTHAVESPAM (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:

In this week's Parade magazone, Marilyn vos Savant discussed how to replace
"www" in normal conversation, since the three letters are a mouthful. The
reader response she gave was to replace "www" with "web", so the
pronunciation of www.google.com becomes web dot google dot com. Evidently
she (or her assistant) didn't know that "web" could qualify as a subdomain
(or not) and a user who types "web" instead of the intended "www" would be
given the inncorrect (or non-existant) page.

Anyone have a conversational alternative to "www"?


How about "triple w"?

That's how I say it aloud.

Her column is a good illustration of the limitsof IQ testing (she is,
or at least was, allegedly the holder of the highest recorded IQ)

Nick

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"Leslie" <garbage123 (AT) bessiebee (DOT) com> wrote

On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 17:34:19 GMT, "Michael Wilcox"
mjwilcoCANTHAVESPAM (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:

In this week's Parade magazone, Marilyn vos Savant discussed how to
replace
"www" in normal conversation, since the three letters are a mouthful. The
reader response she gave was to replace "www" with "web", so the
pronunciation of www.google.com becomes web dot google dot com. Evidently
she (or her assistant) didn't know that "web" could qualify as a
subdomain
(or not) and a user who types "web" instead of the intended "www" would
be
given the inncorrect (or non-existant) page.

Anyone have a conversational alternative to "www"?


How about "triple w"?

Leslie

How about leaving it off altogether. Domains should resolve without the
www. part of the URL anyway.

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From:
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Anyone have a conversational alternative
to "www"?

What? No one thought of "w3" as in W3C...

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From:
mjwilcoCANTHAVESPAM (AT) yahoo (DOT) com
(Michael*Wilcox)
Anyone have a conversational alternative
to "www"?

What? No one thought of "w3" as in W3C...

Yeah, well.. I know several people who'd type in: w3.address.com and
then bitch to me that I'd given them the wrong address. :-)

Leslie