Yes, again - we are not planning on ( i dont think) confronting normal users with this concept. They will just see DFA's main site, and unnofficial "communities" (that if your a techy and interested, run on the "DeanSpace" network..... _not_ - to participate you must be a DeanSPace member...
-Zack On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Kurt Cagle wrote: > Again a note of caution on names here. To a programmer, or a mathematician, > DeanSpace makes perfect sense; that's because most programmers tend to think > of space as simply being a kind of multi-dimensional coordinate system, > where the coordinates may or may not have well defined metrics. To the > average persosn, however, space implies NASA, astronauts, the moon, etc., > and consequently can seem more than a little bit odd -- does this mean that > Dean's going to start endorsing higher NASA budgets? Realistically, I'd be > inclined to stay away from it, again with the exception being in our own > context. > > -- Kurt > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 7:14 AM > Subject: Re: [hackers] Ok, the network naming poll is up > > > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 03:22:31AM -0400, Zack Rosen wrote: > > > The network name is an attempt at branding. The brand must as inclusive > > > as possible for the network to be the most effective. > > > > > > Branding the network as the fordean.net network is not inclusive if we > > > are shipping off fordean.net subdomains, and many sites don't use them. > > > > > > Branding it as the DeanSpace network is inclusive because we can give > > > out fordean.net subdomains branded as DeanSpace, and brand non > > > fordean.net sites as Deanspace. > > > > This is precisely the point I was trying to get to right there at the end. > > > > I'm not sure DeanSpace is my favorite, but the domain which the nodes go > into > > by default (if they want to) a) doesn't *have to be* and perhaps b) > *should > > not be* named after the Brand. > > > > Cheers, > > -- jra > > -- > > Jay R. Ashworth > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC > 2100 > > The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think > > Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 > 1274 > > > > OS X: Because making Unix user-friendly was easier than debugging > Windows > > -- Simon Slavin, on a.f.c > > >
