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On 10/27/06, Richmond,Ian <[log in to unmask]> 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.