[1946] in athena10
Re: olh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Sun Mar 29 16:16:24 2009
Cc: debathena@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
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Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:15:34 -0400
On Mar 29, 2009, at 4:01 PM, John Hawkinson wrote:
> Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU> wrote on Sat, 28 Mar 2009
> at 01:08:47 -0400 in <alpine.DEB.1.10.0903280108230.18719@vinegar-pot.mit.edu
> >:
>
>> Yeah, I was actually thinking web.mit.edu/dotfiles would be good.
>
> Please let's drop the 'web' if we're marketting it as short.
>
> http://mit.edu/dotfiles
>
> is plenty-well supported.
Now that I think about this, I wonder if we're setting ourselves up
for failure. Currently we have a dotfiles locker, which is fine, and
it would be easy to create, for example, the lockers "tracker" and "no-
customizations" for our other messages. However, I wonder if there
will come a time when the locker we want isn't available ("mail" comes
to mind), and no reasonable abbreviation is available either.
We do have the "help" locker left over from the olh days. What about
"mit.edu/help/dotfiles"?
Pros:
- there aren't a bunch of stub lockers lying around
- we aren't reserving the top level of a locker for something
Debathena-specific
- easy to remember and read
Cons:
- adds an extra token
Thoughts?
-Jon
