[1919] in athena10
Re: olh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Sat Mar 28 01:09:47 2009
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 01:08:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
cc: debathena@mit.edu
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On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> 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.
Yeah, I was actually thinking web.mit.edu/dotfiles would be good.
-Tim Abbott
