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Subject: Re: Question??? From: Edwin Lam <edwin@vampiricus.com> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 14:10:53 -0800 (PST) - - - - <http://www.necronomi.com/i_want_to_unsubscribe.html> - - - - - - - - - - - <http://www.necronomi.com/elists/SFgoth-L/> - - - - - - - On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Almus wrote: > mace sure you drop that last "." http://www.gothcon.com./ and > http://www.gothcon.com/ are 2 different web pages.. > (I'm still working on how that works) Anyways I probably will not go.. > but wont know for sure untill closer to the event.. technically the dot "." means the root domain. hence www.gothcon.com. and www.gothcon.com are point to the same ip address. however www.gothcon.com's server uses name base virtual hosting so sending www.gothcon.com. to the server will confuse it and returns the server's default page (which is gothcon.com's ISP home page in this case (http://server1.pixeled.net)). ===