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Re: Pick a name, any name...



On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 05:34:20PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> hey how about something much less cryptic like "forge".  Nothing worse than 
> having to guess what woman's name some silly coder named the program I am 
> looking for.
> 
> And since most of us aren't French the names mean very little.  But that is 
> much less important.

Bah, that's what CNAME is for.  We have www. cvs. etc.  Sure, give the
system hosting the service a generic CNAME pointer, but a system's canonical
name itself has to have some character.

Ben
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