Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.news.config Subject: Re: name change -- now about site names in general Message-ID: <5073@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Tue, 19-Feb-85 15:49:20 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.5073 Posted: Tue Feb 19 15:49:20 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 19-Feb-85 15:49:20 EST References: <484@digi-g.UUCP> <604@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP> , <606@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 9 C'mon guys, this is silly. What Dave was saying was "please maximize the information content, not the cuteness, of your site names". This is a reasonable principle *regardless* of how one feels about domain addressing and other holy wars. Unless it's strictly for internal consumption and the software is arranged so that it will never be seen by the net at all, both "snow" and "white" are very poor choices for machine names. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry