Is "www" desirable in web site URL?

[gary newhouse]

> I'm helping construct the URL for a new web site.
> It will either be:
>      http://www.co.washoe.nv.us
> or:
>      http://co.washoe.nv.us
> 
> Does anyone know of any advantages or disadvantages of having
> the letters "www" as part of a URL ... aside from saving key-
> strokes if we leave it out?  (BTW, this site doesn't exist yet, 
> so no point in trying to access it!)

Well..... browsers such as Netscape can recognise a WWW url from that and 
you need not enter the HTTP:// portion of the url when doing a "go 
To"