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I hate that .. when organisations (the biggest offenders I see appear to be the .gov.uk sites) don’t do their redirects properly.

I always just type the root domain, example.com. But for sites that I manage I choose “www.example.com” to be canonical - mainly because in print it’s best to use the www. address as it’s easy to pick out as a web address. For .com’s this isn’t as important as for .org or .net, IMO, as nowadays most people recognise that “.com” refers to a website.

Under  Apache this is easy, add this to your .htaccess file in the document root:

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This page is a repost of one made when searching for mailing list management software for the CrowPoint festival website as part of my work with Communimedia (I’m now at BridgeHosting for web design work, etc.). I’ve used PHPlist on several sites now (including Diverse Manners) and so you could well consider it the winner, but do install at least a couple of apps (or try demos if available, eg PHPlist demo) to ensure you get the app that works best for your situation.

There are several options for open source PHP based mailing lists (and other types). I’m just going to summarise the project names first. I might do some reviews and add details later though.

Note that well known applications used for mailing list management include LISTSERV(TM) by L-Soft (now at version 14.5) and Major Domo by Great Circle Associates (now at version 1.94.5) - these so far as I can tell are console / command line based applications. Major Domo at least has some web-based front-ends made for it though. They might be useful to you, but not to me!

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So I’ve been checking out YouTube recently and watching some football matches, if you’re looking for goal videos or can’t wait to check out what’s been happening down at your local footystad ium then I’ve got just the place for you!

Teams for the 2008-2009 UK Premier League soccer season are (with footystad iums after the colon): Chelsea : Stamford Bridge, Liverpool : Anfield, Man City, Arsenal, West Ham Utd, Middlesbrough, Aston Villa, Bolton, Man Utd, Blackburn, Newcastle, Hull City, Wigan Athletic, Fulham, Stoke City, Portsmouth, Everton, Sunderland, Tottenham, West Bromwich Albion (WBA).

Top scorers to 5 September 2008:

	Player	Team	Top Scorers
1	Gabriel Agbonlahor	Aston Villa	3
2	Blumer Elano	Manchester City	3
3	Amr Zaki	Wigan Athletic	3
4	Dean Ashton	West Ham Utd	2
5	John Carew	Aston Villa	2
6	Deco	Chelsea	2
7	Jermain Defoe	Portsmouth	2
8	Darren Fletcher	Man Utd	2
9	Ricardo Fuller	Stoke City	2
10	Mido	Middlesbrough	2
11	Jason Roberts	Blackburn	2
12	Robin Van Persie	Arsenal	2
13	Shaun Wright-Phillips	Manchester City	2
14	Ayegbeni Yakubu	Everton	2
15	Afonso Alves	Middlesbrough	1
16	Nicolas Anelka	Chelsea	1
17	Mikel Arteta	Everton	1
18	Roman Bednar	WBA	1
19	Craig Bellamy	West Ham Utd	1
20	Juliano Belletti	Chelsea	1

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