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      <title>Comments on: I've tweaked the way subdomains work on MetaFilter.</title>
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  	<title>I&apos;ve tweaked the way subdomains work on MetaFilter.</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter</link>	
  	<description>As &lt;a href=&quot;http://metatalk.metafilter.com/mefi/10967#277539&quot;&gt;I hinted&lt;/a&gt; at last week, I&apos;ve tweaked the way subdomains work on MetaFilter. So if you really want to follow &lt;a href=&quot;http://iraq.metafilter.com/&quot;&gt;IraqFilter&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://art.metafilter.com/&quot;&gt;ArtFilter&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://apple.metafilter.com/&quot;&gt;AppleFilter&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://google.metafilter.com/&quot;&gt;GoogleFilter&lt;/a&gt; or even &lt;a href=&quot;http://batshitinsane.metafilter.com/&quot;&gt;BatshitinsaneFilter&lt;/a&gt;, now you can.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:01:22 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>mathowie</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: Evstar</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278258</link>	
  	<description>Cool!</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:02:21 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>Evstar</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: Robot Johnny</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278259</link>	
  	<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://quonsar.metafilter.com/&quot;&gt;The web site you are accessing has experienced an unexpected error.&lt;/a&gt;</description>
  	<guid isPermaLink="false">comment:metatalk.metafilter.com,2006:site.10984-278259</guid>
  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:06:03 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>Robot Johnny</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: stopgap</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278261</link>	
  	<description>When you&apos;re on one of the tag-subdomains, the &quot;MetaFilter&quot; link in the upper right of the navbar works as expected, but should the logo and the &quot;Home&quot; link on the left go to www.metafilter.com (instead of tag.metafilter.com) as well?</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:10:16 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>stopgap</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: xmutex</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278262</link>	
  	<description>lol robot johnny</description>
  	<guid isPermaLink="false">comment:metatalk.metafilter.com,2006:site.10984-278262</guid>
  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:10:24 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>xmutex</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: LarryC</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278263</link>	
  	<description>Great!  I had no idea the batshitinsane tag was so popular--or did you tag those posts that way?&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Can we also set our preferences to not display everything &lt;em&gt;except &lt;/em&gt;IraqFilter?</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:11:25 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>LarryC</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: Rothko</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278265</link>	
  	<description>Matt, there&apos;s a little bit of a code bug that breaks header links.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
When you visit, say, &lt;a href=&quot;http://bush.metafilter.com/&quot;&gt;BushFilter&lt;/a&gt;, every link in the header (such as the Metafilter logo) and below of the variety http://www.metafilter.com/* is replaced instead with http://bush.metafilter.com/*</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:13:20 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>Rothko</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: Rothko</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278266</link>	
  	<description>Actually, it seems to affect all of the header links, except the four in the top-right corner.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:18:43 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>Rothko</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: Sharcho</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278267</link>	
  	<description>BTW: metafilter.com still returns a 302 status code instead of 301.</description>
  	<guid isPermaLink="false">comment:metatalk.metafilter.com,2006:site.10984-278267</guid>
  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:23:52 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>Sharcho</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: rob511</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278269</link>	
  	<description>Corrected link for the above: &lt;a href=&quot;http://art.metafilter.com&quot;&gt;ArtFilter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;small&gt;&lt;small&gt;Oh, and thanks, Matt!&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:29:36 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>rob511</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: Nelson</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278270</link>	
  	<description>Huh, it never would have occurred to me to use wildcard DNS for this instead of, you know, the URL path. Cool feature though!</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:35:54 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>Nelson</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: robocop is bleeding</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278274</link>	
  	<description>Woot, &lt;a href=&quot;http://comics.metafilter.com/&quot;&gt;ComicsFilter&lt;/a&gt;!</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:39:24 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>robocop is bleeding</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: robocop is bleeding</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278275</link>	
  	<description>So what happens if a post is tagged &apos;Metatalk&apos;?</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:40:24 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>robocop is bleeding</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: killdevil</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278276</link>	
  	<description>Cool.</description>
  	<guid isPermaLink="false">comment:metatalk.metafilter.com,2006:site.10984-278276</guid>
  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:42:24 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>killdevil</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: mathowie</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278277</link>	
  	<description>Well Nelson, it&apos;s not simply just a tags page, it&apos;s more of a filtered view of metafilter for that tag, so all the other features are present like sorting, new links/comments, etc.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Posts tagged with metatalk or ask will die an invisible death unfortunately.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:42:52 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>mathowie</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: boo_radley</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278278</link>	
  	<description>There&apos;s a sidebar containing tags when you read a post. Maybe you could update that sidebar to point to the the appropriate subdomain? I would find such a feature &lt;i&gt;awesome&lt;/i&gt;.</description>
  	<guid isPermaLink="false">comment:metatalk.metafilter.com,2006:site.10984-278278</guid>
  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:46:00 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>boo_radley</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: boo_radley</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278279</link>	
  	<description>(oh, and this is already awesome all on its own, Matt)</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:47:20 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>boo_radley</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: boo_radley</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278280</link>	
  	<description>or, hah, yes, having http://not_foo.metafilter.com for blacklisting things.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:48:59 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>boo_radley</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: stavrosthewonderchicken</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278282</link>	
  	<description>Brilliant idea. I like it!</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:53:27 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>stavrosthewonderchicken</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: scarabic</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278285</link>	
  	<description>hey, that&apos;s nifty!</description>
  	<guid isPermaLink="false">comment:metatalk.metafilter.com,2006:site.10984-278285</guid>
  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:56:44 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>scarabic</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: nobody</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278286</link>	
  	<description>Neat-o. It&apos;s great to see the posts sorted by date with the date-headers present. You get a much better sense of history now.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:57:07 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>nobody</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: smackfu</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278289</link>	
  	<description>Wicked cool.</description>
  	<guid isPermaLink="false">comment:metatalk.metafilter.com,2006:site.10984-278289</guid>
  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 16:06:35 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>smackfu</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: duende</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278291</link>	
  	<description>Hey, awesome.</description>
  	<guid isPermaLink="false">comment:metatalk.metafilter.com,2006:site.10984-278291</guid>
  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 16:17:14 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>duende</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: furiousthought</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278294</link>	
  	<description>That&apos;s frickin&apos; sweet.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 16:26:15 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>furiousthought</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: delmoi</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278295</link>	
  	<description>perhaps you could hard-code tag_ask and tag_metatalk for posts tagged with those tags. &lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Also, what about ask? Are we going to see sex.ask.metafilter.com, for example.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 16:27:37 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>delmoi</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: delmoi</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278297</link>	
  	<description>Also, matt you should not let people do this with the &quot;NSFW&quot; tag.  If people at paypal go &lt;a href=&quot;http://nsfw.metafilter.com/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; it could result in you getting blocked from their system.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 16:28:44 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>delmoi</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: kindall</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278300</link>	
  	<description>Awesome. And yes, please, let us exclude things. I would pay money for not_iraq.not_bush.metafilter.com.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 16:38:34 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>kindall</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: cortex</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278303</link>	
  	<description>Awesome.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
&lt;small&gt;And now I can get some &lt;a href=&quot;http://metatalk.metafilter.com/mefi/10967#277558&quot;&gt;sleep&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/small&gt;</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 16:47:42 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>cortex</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: graventy</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278305</link>	
  	<description>I can&apos;t seem to find any posts about &lt;a href=&quot;http://quonsar.metafilter.com&quot;&gt;quonsar &lt;/a&gt;though...for some reason.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 16:53:17 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>graventy</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: fire&amp;wings</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278306</link>	
  	<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://bukkake.metafilter.com/&quot;&gt;http://bukkake.metafilter.com/&lt;/a&gt;, we hardly knew ye.</description>
  	<guid isPermaLink="false">comment:metatalk.metafilter.com,2006:site.10984-278306</guid>
  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 16:53:21 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>fire&amp;wings</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: delmoi</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278307</link>	
  	<description>and what about sites tagged www?</description>
  	<guid isPermaLink="false">comment:metatalk.metafilter.com,2006:site.10984-278307</guid>
  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 16:53:31 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>delmoi</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: smackfu</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278308</link>	
  	<description>Because I am good at breaking thing -- this page doesn&apos;t have a stylesheet (in Safari):&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://bush+iraq.metafilter.com/&quot;&gt;http://bush+iraq.metafilter.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
OTOH, I don&apos;t even think you can have pluses in domain names, so who knows what it&apos;s doing.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 16:57:29 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>smackfu</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: Plutor</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278309</link>	
  	<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://metatalk.metafilter.com/mefi/10967#277584&quot;&gt;Good call todbot&lt;/a&gt;, and great feature Matt.  Anding and oring these new domains would be cool, sure, but it&apos;s really just a meaningful url-shortener.  A boolean language for navigating tags would be good even without the subdomains.  But what would be a more useful feature (perhaps in conjunction with this) is RSS feeds for the tag listings.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 17:05:12 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>Plutor</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: Plutor</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278310</link>	
  	<description>&lt;small&gt;I mean RSS feeds for the list of posts for a tag.  I want to be able to put comics.metafilter.com in my feed reader.&lt;/small&gt;</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 17:06:06 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>Plutor</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: Jimbob</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278311</link>	
  	<description>Man why didn&apos;t anyone think of this before?  How cool.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Smackfu - even mousing-over that link in Opera gives me an Illegal URL error.  How about:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
http://bush.iraq.metafilter.com/ &lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Instead?</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 17:08:44 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>Jimbob</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: mathowie</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278313</link>	
  	<description>&lt;em&gt;I don&apos;t even think you can have pluses in domain names, so who knows what it&apos;s doing.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Yeah, you can&apos;t put plus signs in subdomains so it&apos;s not really a bug, it&apos;s part of the HTTP spec.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;I mean RSS feeds for the list of posts for a tag. I want to be able to put comics.metafilter.com in my feed reader.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Yeah, I&apos;ll do RSS feeds for tags, definitely. And todbot guessed right.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 17:09:21 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>mathowie</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: mathowie</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278314</link>	
  	<description>Yeah, Jimbob, I could do that. Lemme fix that tonight.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 17:10:06 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>mathowie</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: Ufez Jones</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278318</link>	
  	<description>&lt;i&gt;Yeah, I&apos;ll do RSS feeds for tags, definitely.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Sweet.  I was kicking around the idea of requesting that today.  Thanks matt!</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 17:25:05 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>Ufez Jones</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: five fresh fish</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278321</link>	
  	<description>Nifty, but useless without a formal taxonomy for &lt;i&gt;the most common&lt;/i&gt; types of post.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Otherwise we end up relying on the tags actually being accurate, and we all know full well that &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; ain&apos;t gonna happen.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
The post submission page should list the top-ten classes of tag under the tag entry box, in hopes that we can get a high degree of consistency.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 17:29:32 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>five fresh fish</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: ?!</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278322</link>	
  	<description>RSS feeds for tags?! Wonderful&lt;a href=&quot;http://metatalk.metafilter.com/mefi/9576&quot;&gt;.&lt;/a&gt; Thank you.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 17:44:59 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>?!</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: edgeways</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278326</link>	
  	<description>thank you matt, looks cool</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 18:08:51 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>edgeways</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: crunchland</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278327</link>	
  	<description>neat. thanks, Matt.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 18:10:44 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>crunchland</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: eriko</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278328</link>	
  	<description>One of the better DNS hacks EVAR. Nicely done.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 18:12:07 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>eriko</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: crunchland</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278329</link>	
  	<description>although, what happens if someone uses the tag &quot;ask&quot; or &quot;metatalk?&quot;</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 18:13:28 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>crunchland</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: Plutor</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278330</link>	
  	<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://metatalk.metafilter.com/mefi/10984#278329&quot;&gt;crunchland&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;&lt;i&gt;although, what happens if someone uses the tag &quot;ask&quot; or &quot;metatalk?&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&quot;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://metatalk.metafilter.com/mefi/10984#278275&quot;&gt;Asked&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://metatalk.metafilter.com/mefi/10984#278277&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 18:18:27 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>Plutor</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: andrew cooke</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278331</link>	
  	<description>could you use &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3492.html&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; to do the bush+iraq.metafilter.com thing?</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 18:26:58 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>andrew cooke</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: crunchland</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278334</link>	
  	<description>Heh. You don&apos;t actually expect me to read all this crap, do you, Plutor?</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 18:30:22 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>crunchland</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: loquacious</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278339</link>	
  	<description>Man. I just logged in from work and suddenly there appeared at my office door these two incredibly hot hookers carrying enormous sacks of the purest Colombian blow.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Thanks, Matt!</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 19:44:49 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>loquacious</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: Jimbob</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278340</link>	
  	<description>(this is going to reek havoc  with all the weird wildcard domain names Google has got its hands on)</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 19:45:33 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>Jimbob</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: mathowie</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278342</link>	
  	<description>&lt;em&gt;this is going to reek havoc with all the weird wildcard domain names Google has got its hands on&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Not necessarily. All the subpages still work, so quonsar.ate.my.baby.metafilter.com/mefi/45235 still works, it&apos;s just the front page that is different.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 19:48:32 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>mathowie</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: mathowie</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278343</link>	
  	<description>I think the redirect is now a 301</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 19:59:12 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>mathowie</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: mediareport</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278345</link>	
  	<description>Wow, Matt, this is great - something I didn&apos;t know I wanted but absolutely love now that it&apos;s here. Thanks!&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
fff: &lt;i&gt;The post submission page should list the top-ten classes of tag under the tag entry box, in hopes that we can get a high degree of consistency.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Strong second. Matt, I can&apos;t think of a better way to help keep the taxonomy in shape than giving folks a short list of top 10 tags and a link to the top 150 page* just below the tag entry box on posting pages.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
*I&apos;d also like to re-iterate, since we &lt;a href=&quot;http://metatalk.metafilter.com/mefi/10976#277896&quot;&gt;no longer have the &quot;all tags&quot; page&lt;/a&gt;, that listing &quot;all tags with greater than 20 uses&quot; would probably be more useful to the taxonomy than using an arbitrary number like a top 150.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 20:06:56 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>mediareport</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: mathowie</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278346</link>	
  	<description>What does &quot;top ten classes of tag&quot; mean? Ten most used tags? I guess the &quot;class&quot; part threw me.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
I&apos;m currently displaying every tag you&apos;ve used below the posting form, if any javascript masters want to help make those useful, it&apos;d be great if someone could send me the code to make each tag a clickable link that appends the tag list with the link you clicked (like delicious), that&apos;d be great.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 20:11:33 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>mathowie</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: smackfu</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278347</link>	
  	<description>You could just rip off the delicious.  Viva la javascript.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 20:30:24 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>smackfu</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: mathowie</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278351</link>	
  	<description>thanks to my friend jason levine, we now have clickable tag adding working on the post page.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 20:44:06 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>mathowie</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: stavrosthewonderchicken</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278354</link>	
  	<description>Cool bananas.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Nifty, but useless without a formal taxonomy for the most common types of post.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
I disagree, for emergent-order reasons I&apos;ve blathered on about before.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
I was going to suggest, but didn&apos;t, but will now, though: I think posts to the Blue should &lt;em&gt;require &lt;/em&gt; some tags to be entered (or chosen) before posting. A link to a paragraph or two on the concept, on or offsite, would help educate those who need it, and after the first time, they&apos;re good to go, presumably.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 21:05:37 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>stavrosthewonderchicken</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: clevershark</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278357</link>	
  	<description>http://batshitinsane.metafilter.com/... finally, a web site tailored to my needs.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 21:17:43 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>clevershark</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: sjvilla79</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278358</link>	
  	<description>Neat.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 21:18:13 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>sjvilla79</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: mediareport</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278361</link>	
  	<description>&lt;i&gt;What does &quot;top ten classes of tag&quot; mean?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
I think fff just meant that the top 10 or so tags are general enough to serve as &quot;classes&quot; of posts.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
&lt;i&gt;I&apos;m currently displaying every tag you&apos;ve used below the posting form&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Yeah, I just saw that, but how does that help, say, a new poster keep the taxonomy useful? Wouldn&apos;t it be better to just show us the top 10 (or 50, or 150) tags used *by others* in that space?</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 21:35:48 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>mediareport</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: mathowie</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278362</link>	
  	<description>showing your tags is done for consistency, so if you used something in the past, you can easily find it again. I&apos;ll put the 150 popular list on there as well.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 21:56:11 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>mathowie</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: Chuckles</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278364</link>	
  	<description>This is a really cool feature.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
It would be great to clean up the tags that are actually used though. There are some hard questions, like how to separate &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq&quot;&gt;Iraq&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_iraq_war&quot;&gt;the &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War#See_also_2&quot;&gt;Iraq&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War&quot;&gt;Wars&lt;/a&gt;. There are some easy ones too, however, like adding appropriate tags to old posts on relatively clearly defined topics, and making the tag choices consistent.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
For example, the issue of depleted uranium use in weapons is of some interest to me, so when a post came along that featured that topic I spent some time and pulled together &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/48126#1165866&quot;&gt;previous threads on the subject of depleted uranium&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
It would be great if there was a way for that work to be incorporated into the tag system. I guess I could have created a MeTa post like this:&lt;blockquote&gt;Today we had a post on depleted uranium. Here are all the previous threads on the subject that I could find. &lt;insert list here&gt; If you know of a mefi thread on the subject that should be included in this list please add a link to it here.&lt;/insert&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Some other interested party might notice that I only searched for FPPs and there might be an appropriate AskMe question, or I might have missed a post, these could be referenced in the comments. We might also debate the appropriate reference tag for the topic. At some appropriate time an admin* could add the appropriate tag to the posts mentioned.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
That might be too much noise in MeTa, but we could have another site for the specific issue - tags.metafilter.com, or something. A dedicated site has the benefit that maintaining discipline would be much easier and threads could be kept open longer - AskMe is a great example of both.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
For the record, I&apos;m not a taxonomy enthusiast, but I do value the benefits of a good system. Also, I like &lt;em&gt;keyword&lt;/em&gt;, the idea and the name, &lt;em&gt;tag&lt;/em&gt; is way too web 2.0 for me. I am happy enough to look past that small draw back if there is something useful about them though.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
&lt;small&gt;* Yes, I know &apos;an admin&apos; means mathowie or jessamyn, and I know that I am suggesting more work for them. So, it might be impractical for the time being, but it is a worthwhile topic to pursue anyway, right?&lt;/small&gt;</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 22:14:38 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>Chuckles</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: Chuckles</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278366</link>	
  	<description>Appropriate, appropriate appropriate - ARGH! &lt;small&gt;sorry about that&lt;/small&gt;</description>
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  	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 22:21:15 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>Chuckles</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: quonsar</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278370</link>	
  	<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://there.appeared.at.my.office.door.these.two.incredibly.hot.hookers.carrying.enormous.sacks.of.the.purest.Colombian.blow.metafilter.com/&quot;&gt;http://there.appeared.at.my.office.door.these.two.incredibly.hot.hookers.carrying.enormous.sacks.of.the.purest.Colombian.blow.metafilter.com&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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  	<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:02:38 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>quonsar</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: taz</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278371</link>	
  	<description>Really, really nice.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Did I mention &quot;really&quot;? And &quot;nice&quot;?</description>
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  	<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 01:31:28 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>taz</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: todbot</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278372</link>	
  	<description>&lt;i&gt;And todbot guessed right.&lt;/i&gt;  *blush*&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
I only thought of it because we did it at GoTo.com for the tags^Wkeywords to our bidded listings.  But that was back in &apos;98.  before sponsored search was cool and googly.  :)&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Another URL hack I really liked that we did at Yahoo Research Labs was &quot;yaqs.com/{insert search phrase here}&quot; typed into your URL location bar does the requested search.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
e.g. type in &quot;yaqs.com/how many quonsars in a quonset?&quot;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
(no results, but still, it does the search.  and I&apos;ve been saving the quonset joke for &lt;i&gt;ages&lt;/i&gt;)</description>
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  	<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 01:47:57 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: fuzz</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278374</link>	
  	<description>This is a great pony! But it makes the old music.metafilter.com disappear.  Matt, any plans to revive it one day? I&apos;d love to see a place where we can share music and get feedback. I was disappointed that Projects doesn&apos;t accept comments.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Also, any chance of extending the tag subdomains to work with AskMeFi?</description>
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  	<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 03:05:47 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>fuzz</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: Plutor</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278375</link>	
  	<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://metatalk.metafilter.com/mefi/10984#278345&quot;&gt;mediareport&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;&lt;i&gt;*I&apos;d also like to re-iterate, since we &lt;a href=&quot;http://metatalk.metafilter.com/mefi/10976#277896&quot;&gt;no longer have the &quot;all tags&quot; page&lt;/a&gt;, that listing &quot;all tags with greater than 20 uses&quot; would probably be more useful to the taxonomy than using an arbitrary number like a top 150.&lt;/i&gt;&quot;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
How is this not replacing one abitrary number with another?  How does a tag somehow become deserving on its twentieth &lt;s&gt;birthday&lt;/s&gt; use?  Instead, I&apos;d like to propose some sort of ratio.  Any tag used on more than one-hundredth of the tagged posts.  Yes, I&apos;m replacing two arbitrary numbers with a third, but mine is both flexible and scales better.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
On the other hand, we&apos;ll start getting &quot;how does a tag end up on the tags page&quot; MeTa threads instead of &quot;what defines a &apos;new comment&apos;?&quot;.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:35:56 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>Plutor</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: mediareport</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278384</link>	
  	<description>&lt;i&gt;How does a tag somehow become deserving on its twentieth birthday use?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
It becomes deserving on its 38th birthday now; that just seemed a little high. It leaves off a lot of tags for subjects that are popular but not super-popular. Lowering it to 20 (or whatever) uses would help systematize the taxonomy beyond the current, rather early, point at which many of us start going off in our own little tag directions.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 06:59:02 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>mediareport</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: Faint of Butt</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278385</link>	
  	<description>This is sweet.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
::bookmarks &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.metafilter.com&quot;&gt;http://starwars.metafilter.com&lt;/a&gt;::</description>
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  	<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 07:00:35 -0800</pubDate>
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  	<title>By: PenguinBukkake</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278395</link>	
  	<description>&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://bukkake.metafilter.com/&quot;&gt;damn&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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  	<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 08:02:11 -0800</pubDate>
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  	<title>By: delmoi</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278397</link>	
  	<description>Actualy, I think this is kind of stupid.  It totaly overloads the useful purpose of subdomains, and dosn&apos;t acomplish anything that http://metafilter.com/tagname would. So what&apos;s the point? &lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Now, adding new subsites to metafilter will break whatever tag page we get. (like music.metafilter.com) or whatever.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 08:14:37 -0800</pubDate>
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  	<title>By: Rothko</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278401</link>	
  	<description>Newsfilter.metafilter.com takes on a new literal meaning for those who wanted it all these years.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 08:29:30 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>Rothko</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: five fresh fish</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278409</link>	
  	<description>WRT tagging, I mean we need some way of guiding users when they&apos;re making tag selections.  &lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
It would be stupid to have the &quot;same topic&quot; covered by different tags that mean the same thing: &quot;bush&quot; &quot;bushfilter&quot; &quot;government&quot; &quot;usgov&quot; &quot;assholes&quot; &quot;gop&quot; etc. could all apply to stories about the latest US Administrative scandal.  &lt;i&gt;Which&lt;/i&gt; tag is used depends entirely on the user who makes the post, and several of those tags seem equally likely to be used.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
This unstructured tagging makes it impossible to ensure that all similar stories are grouped together.  Someone who&apos;s looking at &quot;bush.metafilter.com&quot; is going to miss the Bush story that&apos;s been tagged &quot;asshole.metafilter.com&quot;.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
This is why we need some simple taxonomic advice: a set of tags that &lt;b&gt;broadly&lt;/b&gt; define a &quot;class&quot; of story.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Off the top of my head, we should have:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Science Religion Politics CurrentEvents Arts Tech War Funny&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Basically, a small set of tags that accurately but broadly categorize some 80+% of the posts made to MeFi.  This is the only way that &quot;subdomain tagging&quot; can be truly useful.  Without this basic structure, the entire thing becomes a near-complete crapshoot.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
No one is &lt;i&gt;forced&lt;/i&gt; to use the broad-category tags, but there should be some significant social pressure to do so.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:41:00 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>five fresh fish</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: goodnewsfortheinsane</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278414</link>	
  	<description>I think it&apos;s a cool feature that will work best if it goes &apos;undocumented&apos; - i.e., some people may find it useful but I wouldn&apos;t advocate it as *the* way to browse tags. It&apos;s folksonomy, not taxonomy. However I disagree with fff on the proposed &quot;official&quot; taxonomy; we&apos;re not Fark, many posts belong in several or none of these categories, and we wouldn&apos;t want to water down the community.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:08:41 -0800</pubDate>
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  	<title>By: todbot</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278430</link>	
  	<description>Now it would be really cool if one could do tag negation,  e.g. &quot;Show me all posts &lt;u&gt;without&lt;/u&gt; &apos;newsfilter&apos;&quot;.  Perhaps:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
  -newsfilter.metafilter.com&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
maybe something like:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;tt&gt; if( $tag =~ /^-/&quot; ) { whereclause .= &quot;tag != $tag&quot; } &lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br&gt;
if you sprechen perl.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
pony?</description>
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  	<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:40:22 -0800</pubDate>
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  	<title>By: quonsar</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278444</link>	
  	<description>&lt;i&gt;I&apos;ve been saving the quonset joke for ages&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
during most of 2002/2003 i was &apos;quonset_the_hut&apos; on #mefi IRC.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:10:21 -0800</pubDate>
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  	<title>By: andrew cooke</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278448</link>	
  	<description>&lt;em&gt;No one is forced to use the broad-category tags, but there should be some significant social pressure to do so.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
oh great.  something else people will moan about.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
let&apos;s just get something straight.  the whole fricking point of tags is that they are flexible, emergent, probabilistic.  they are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; chosen by five fresh fish and his little bunch of chums in the tag police.  they &lt;em&gt;don&apos;t&lt;/em&gt; give guarantees that every particular set is complete.  instead they are adaptive.  they are - to coin an example that seems popular here - free market capitalism instead of planned economies.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
or, as someone once said, freedom is messy.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
i know that for some of us, that&apos;s upsetting.  people doing their own thing instead of following little rules.  not using the tag values fff would like.  listening to loud music.  whatever.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
but, you know, the world won&apos;t end.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
so take your social pressure and stick it somewhere else, please.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
however....  negation would be very nice, as would multiple values.  negation, particulary, goes a long way to meet what people have been asking for for a long time.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
delmoi has a point, but only partially.  metatalk and ask do break things, but the problem isn&apos;t that one approach is wrong, but rather that there are two different approaches using the same namespace.  hence the conflict.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
you could equally well get rid of the grey and the green and let people tag with &quot;ask&quot; and &quot;meta&quot; if they wanted to.  at th emoment tags and the traditional site divisions are two (conflicting) ways of doing the same job.  either one alone would be ok.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:17:51 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>andrew cooke</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: fandango_matt</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278460</link>	
  	<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://goatse.metafilter.com/&quot;&gt;I thought there&apos;d be more.&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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  	<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:48:51 -0800</pubDate>
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  	<title>By: five fresh fish</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278475</link>	
  	<description>The &quot;art.metafilter.com&quot; trick will be absolfuckinglutely &lt;b&gt;useless&lt;/b&gt; if your post about the Warhol Foundation&apos;s generous allowance for remixing his work isn&apos;t tagged with &lt;b&gt;at least&lt;/b&gt; the word &quot;art.&quot;  (And you should probably include &quot;copyright.&quot;)&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Tagging is only useful &lt;i&gt;if you use the tags that people could be reasonably expected to search for.&lt;/i&gt;  In all other cases it is just wanking.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
I am &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; saying that you should be &lt;i&gt;forced&lt;/i&gt; to abide by some arbitrary set of rules, but that it would be some goddamn &lt;i&gt;smart&lt;/i&gt; if all y&apos;all were to follow some clear &lt;i&gt;guidelines&lt;/i&gt; for tagging.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
In fact, it&apos;s pretty damn useless already, what with some people tagging their artsyfartsy post as &quot;art&quot; and others as &quot;arts&quot; and yet others as &quot;artists&quot; and &quot;artistic&quot; and &quot;painting.&quot;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
More and more I have to conclude that tagging is just masturbation.  Spunk out a random stream of craptacular tags, especially &quot;witty&quot; ones, and to hell with actual usability.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:22:26 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>five fresh fish</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: MetaMonkey</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278486</link>	
  	<description>Pretty damned cool.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
As far as art/arts/artists etc. goes, is it not too hard to set up synonyms or associations, as some other tagging systems are starting to play with?&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
For example on art.metafilter.com you would get the options to &apos;include synonyms - arts/artists&apos; from a given list. Though how you get the list is another question.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:05:24 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>MetaMonkey</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: Sharcho</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278490</link>	
  	<description>&lt;small&gt;&lt;em&gt;Actualy, I think this is kind of stupid. It totaly overloads the useful purpose of subdomains, and dosn&apos;t acomplish anything that http://metafilter.com/tagname would. So what&apos;s the point?&lt;br&gt;
posted by delmoi at 8:14 AM PST on January 10&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Seconded. This is not what subdomains are meant for, and it&apos;s very limited. Most people would like a customized front page but domain names place too many limits -- can&apos;t exclude (not), can&apos;t combine (and), can&apos;t unify (or), doesn&apos;t support unicode, can&apos;t add additional filters (user/date/etc., can&apos;t highlight stories, can&apos;t tweak the layout, can&apos;t use it for AskMe/MetaTalk/Projects and there&apos;s no way to add these features in a clean way later.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
I think a better way to implement it would be something like news.google.com .</description>
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  	<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:15:13 -0800</pubDate>
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  	<title>By: jann</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278539</link>	
  	<description>thank you.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 18:17:29 -0800</pubDate>
  	<dc:creator>jann</dc:creator>
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  	<title>By: deborah</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278579</link>	
  	<description>*&lt;a href=&quot;http://cat.metafilter.com/&quot;&gt;purr&lt;/a&gt;*</description>
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  	<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:01:00 -0800</pubDate>
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  	<title>By: whir</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278586</link>	
  	<description>Thanks Matt, this rules.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
todbot&lt;a href=&quot;http://metatalk.metafilter.com/mefi/10984#278430&quot;&gt;:&lt;/a&gt; &lt;i&gt;Perhaps: -newsfilter.metafilter.com&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
I like the way this looks too, but the DNS RFC&apos;s specify that domains need to begin with [A-Za-z0-9]. (IIRC)&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
stavros&lt;a href=&quot;http://metatalk.metafilter.com/mefi/10984#278354&quot;&gt;:&lt;/a&gt; &lt;i&gt;I think posts to the Blue should require  some tags to be entered (or chosen) before posting. A link to a paragraph or two on the concept, on or offsite, would help educate those who need it [...]&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
I agree, maybe the mefi wiki &lt;a href=&quot;http://mssv.net/wiki.cgi?Tags&quot;&gt;page on &apos;tags&apos;&lt;/a&gt; would be a good place to start?  (It doesn&apos;t exist yet, and I&apos;m not volunteering to create it - I&apos;m volunteering you-all.)  Seems like the wiki would be a good place for it right now since the tag system is still somewhat in flux.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Also thought I&apos;d link in this brief &lt;a href=&quot;http://metatalk.metafilter.com/mefi/10581&quot;&gt;discussion on user-added tags&lt;/a&gt;, since a system like this would maybe address some of the art.mefi issues above.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:52:32 -0800</pubDate>
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  	<title>By: kindall</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278592</link>	
  	<description>&lt;i&gt;The &quot;art.metafilter.com&quot; trick will be absolfuckinglutely useless if your post about the Warhol Foundation&apos;s generous allowance for remixing his work isn&apos;t tagged with at least the word &quot;art.&quot; (And you should probably include &quot;copyright.&quot;)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
You&apos;re kinda missing the point. The point is not to find every possible art-related post. If you are looking for posts about art, because you like reading about art, reading posts tagged &quot;art&quot; works great. It&apos;ll definitely find stuff you will be interested in reading.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:05:24 -0800</pubDate>
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  	<title>By: stavrosthewonderchicken</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278604</link>	
  	<description>Metafilter: You&apos;re kinda missing the point. &lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Shoot me now.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2006 04:19:57 -0800</pubDate>
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  	<title>By: stavrosthewonderchicken</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278605</link>	
  	<description>Metafilter: Shoot me now.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Oh fuck, my eyeballs are bleeding.</description>
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  	<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2006 04:20:38 -0800</pubDate>
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  	<title>By: stavrosthewonderchicken</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278606</link>	
  	<description>Metafilter:</description>
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  	<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2006 04:21:01 -0800</pubDate>
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  	<title>By: todbot</title>
  	<link>http://metatalk.metafilter.com/10984/Ive-tweaked-the-way-subdomains-work-on-MetaFilter#278840</link>	
  	<description>&lt;i&gt;todbot: Perhaps: -newsfilter.metafilter.com&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
I like the way this looks too, but the DNS RFC&apos;s specify that domains need to begin with [A-Za-z0-9]. (IIRC)&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Yeah but DNS servers and their clients are notoriously bad at being restrictive with such things.  For instance. I set up a domain of mine such that:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;tt&gt; {some.dotted.search.terms}.jook.com &lt;/tt&gt;&lt;br&gt;
end up doing a search on Yahoo Search.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
And for me at least: &lt;a href=&quot;http://quonsar.ate.my.baby.jook.com/&quot;&gt;http://quonsar.ate.my.baby.jook.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
and: &lt;a href=&quot;http://quonsar.ate.my.-baby.jook.com/&quot;&gt;http://quonsar.ate.my.-baby.jook.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
both work.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Or even:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://-naked.-hot.coeds.jook.com/&quot;&gt;http://-naked.-hot.coeds.jook.com/&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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  	<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2006 21:54:39 -0800</pubDate>
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