On 10/27/06, Richmond,Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It crosses my mind that most of server names mentioned so far are like
modern art, where x artist is responding to y school neither of whom
have ever been seen by anyone outside NYC.  You have to be in the know
for it to make sense.

Or, you know, the fact that you can come up with a theme as a
department, give yourselves a sense of identity and whatnot.


  What about naming the server so that users would know what it did from
the name?  We used to have a library web server named libweb, which I

Which users are we talking about?

always liked, as it sort of made sense to people.  Now all our new ones
are named after periodic elements.  Not being a chemistry major, I still
have to think twice which one is radon and which strontium etc.

Are these names the arbitrary will of one person?

-Ross.

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