[12529] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: About the creation of new 3-letter domain(s)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark R. Ludwig)
Fri May 20 10:29:59 1994
From: "Mark R. Ludwig" <Mark-Ludwig@uai.com>
To: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <m0q4JqX-000IEKC@crynwr>
from "Russell Nelson" on Thu, 19 May 1994 21:57:00 EDT.
Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 21:08:19 -0700
>>>>> On Thu, 19 May 94 21:57 EDT, nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) said:
||> From: "Mark R. Ludwig" <Mark-Ludwig@uai.com>
||>
||> I like:
||> Mark-Ludwig@Universal-Analytics.3625.Del-Amo.Boulevard.Torrance.CA.US
||> because as much as I like to think
||> Mark-Ludwig@UAI.COM
||> is easier to remember....
|> It fails the "read it to someone" test.
Why is that? Better, why does:
Mark Ludwig
Universal Analytics, Inc.
3625 Del Amo Boulevard
Suite 370
Torrance, CA 90503
_pass_ the "read it to someone" test, when it's not any shorter?! I
don't have to (usually) mention the line breaks, commas, etc. That's
because people know how to parse these addresses. I suspect it was
not always that way, and claim that whatever long things we have to
use for network addresses to make them scale will become as easy to
"read" as Real Addresses as more people become familiar with them.
Actually, the ability to auto-parse these things is cultural. I know
I have a bit of trouble with non-US addresses, and I imagine the
inverse is also true.
|> Listen to the addresses on NPR programs. They've gotten
|> consistently shorter.
Yes, and while we are all getting educated about how to pronounce and
hear them, shorter is definitely easier. No one debates that.$$
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