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Re: olh

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Fri Mar 27 23:10:03 2009

Cc: debathena@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:09:02 -0400

It sounds like there's overwhelming support for URL redirection.   
However, as jhawk points out, "olh" is ~meaningless to incoming frosh,  
and help.mit.edu is, um, taken.  I also suspect that an A record for  
athena.mit.edu will probably still break something, but I'm not sure  
what.

Any other sugestions for a short hostname?   docs.mit.edu/dotfiles?
athena-help.mit.edu/dotfiles?  tinyurl.mit.edu? ln-s.mit.edu?

Alternatively, lockers are cheap:   mit.edu/dotfiles, mit.edu/tracker,  
etc

I'm not opposed to olh.mit.edu, but if there's something better, that  
would be nice.

-Jon


On Mar 27, 2009, at 9:17 PM, Tim Abbott wrote:

> I prefer the <http://olh.mit.edu/dotfiles> plan.
>
> 	-Tim Abbott


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