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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
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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"?
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