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I don't know why the fuck pg thought a whitelist for subdomain preservation was a good idea. It's actually more work than just stripping off a leading www, whic
by blasdel 17y ago
I don't know why the fuck pg thought a whitelist for subdomain preservation was a good idea. It's actually more work than just stripping off a leading www, which would accomplish everything we actually care about.
- petercooper 17y agoConsidering how many different subdomains google.com has, it's probably a good addition to said list (I hadn't noticed that some subdomains are shown - e.g. wordpress.com - nice catch). That said, if I had to guess a motivation for the technique, it'd be to stop people getting attention by wildcarding subdomains and linking up nonsense like click-here-for-my-awesome-blog.domain.com, etc. Not that such a thing should avoid getting flagged anyway..
- zaatar 17y agoSpammers could get around by registering click-here-for-my-awesome-blog.com though, if they really cared enough to spam the news.yc forums.