[1884] in athena10
Re: olh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Thu Mar 26 01:56:50 2009
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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:54:30 -0500
From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
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olh/dotfiles.
There. 2 tokens :-P
John Hawkinson wrote:
> Greg Price <price@MIT.EDU> wrote on Thu, 26 Mar 2009
> at 01:16:34 -0400 in <20090326051633.GL19794@vinegar-pot.mit.edu>:
>
>> I think a short URI like http://olh.mit.edu/dotfiles is a lot like a
>>
>
>
>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:53:02AM -0400, Jonathan Reed wrote:
>>
>>> http://olh.mit.edu/dotfiles or http://debathena.mit.edu/help/dotfiles,
>>>
>
> Guys, these are not short.
>
> Short is 2 tokens:
> athena.com
> mit.edu
>
> Not-short-but-almost (3 tokens), though maybe problematic
> mit.edu/athena IT'S NOT TAKEN!!!!
> athena.mit.edu ALSO NOT TAKEN
>
>
> Anymore tokens is medium. Hopefully you could do better, but I suspect
> not? 4 tokens:
>
> mit.edu/athena/help
> olh.mit.edu/dotfiles
>
> Totally unreasonable is is 5 tokens:
>
> debathena.mit.edu/help/dotfiles
>
> So the challenge: Can you find a 3-token URL that you can use?
> If not, a 4-teoken URL that people might remember, ideally with no token
> more than one syllable? And with no token an obscure TLA like ``olh''?
>
> --jhawk
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