I don't personally mind, I suppose you could look at the www. is kinda like a marketing thing, when you hear a link of the radio for example the www. automatically tells people it's a website almost like a psychological prompt. or maybe that's just me, lol.
You still get some people calling it the world wide web rather than just the net.
If your using scripts like Wordpress, Joomla, or such then in most cases the config file containing the main data for physical and virtual path will be a determining factor. If you enter in the www and it's not coded in the script then it will most likely add it as it loads or remove it. I think this was done to stop session issues but don't quote me on that, I just remember something along those lines from experience.
As already noted in this post, if it's forced and a user goes the other way then the url should correct itself as it loads.
Some of my sites I have the www and others I don't, I find it almost sad to say goodbye to it, it's historical.
www. is deprecated. have the following to say if it interests anyone:
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By default, all popular Web browsers assume the HTTP protocol. In doing so, the software prepends the 'http://' onto the requested URL and automatically connect to the HTTP server on port 80. Why then do many servers require their websites to communicate through the www subdomain? Mail servers do not require you to send emails to recipient mail.domain.com. Likewise, web servers should allow access to their pages though the main domain unless a particular subdomain is required.
Succinctly, use of the www subdomain is redundant and time consuming to communicate. The internet, media, and society are all better off without it.
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Some forum boards and other cms style software is also set to recognise www and then apply it as a link below I'll type the Surmunity link twice once with and once without (I believe in this forum it also appends some BBcode with some data from the page perhaps from the meta's):
Surpass Web Hosting Forums - Discuss a better website!
surmunity.com
Notice how one works and the other doesn't
In terms of speed http:// is 7 long and www. is only 4 without either in a post of many web software it will only see it as text.
Not so important but I thought I'd point it out.
www. is not deprecated
www. is deprecated.