Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lsuc.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!lsuc!dave From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) Newsgroups: net.news.config Subject: Re: name change Message-ID: <406@lsuc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 14-Feb-85 13:08:45 EST Article-I.D.: lsuc.406 Posted: Thu Feb 14 13:08:45 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Feb-85 19:02:18 EST References: <484@digi-g.UUCP> Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) Distribution: net Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto Lines: 22 Summary: PLEASE use meaningful names In article <484@digi-g.UUCP> dan@digi-g.UUCP (Dan Messinger) writes: ||Oops! It appears that there are two systems in the world with the ||same name. We have an AT running Xenix here that we named 'snow'. || ... We will change our system name to 'white'. This silliness exemplifies the problems we'll continue to have as the net grows, if people insist on picking names which are unrelated to their organization. You've got an AT running Xenix? Gee, I wonder how many others out there will have an AT running Xenix within a year. And how many of them will decide to call their machines "snow", or "white", or "at", or "micro"? Remember, you can never be sure that once you have people working on your machine, some of them won't want to contact the outside world. So don't say "Oh, well, it's just for internal use." PLEASE, people. It may be fun to have cute names, but the net is hard enough to find your way around as it is. Couldn't you use "digi-snow" or "digi-white"? Or (horrors) "digi-at"? -- {utzoo pesnta nrcaero utcs}!lsuc!dave {allegra decvax ihnp4 linus}!utcsrgv!lsuc!dave