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Re: SERVER NAMES

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Brown)
Wed Feb 2 15:00:04 2000

Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 14:50:42 -0500
From: Andrew Brown <twofsonet@graffiti.com>
To: DeepBlue <james@darkblue.net>
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>This is a little off of the normal lines of the list. But I am at a loss as
>to what naming convention I should use with my new set of servers.  I have
>already used Southpark, Jet sons,and Warner brothers cartoons.  Does any one
>have any good suggestions other than the Super Friends?

the last time i had to name a bunch of machines, i went for
renaissance figures: boticelli, davinci, michaelangelo, medici, etc.

but if you're sufficiently insane (like me :), you could just pick
random words from the dictionary.  that's a nigh-infinite source of
words as far as hostnames are concerned.

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