From: utzoo!watmath!bstempleton
Newsgroups: net.news
Title: Choose better site names, guys
Article-I.D.: watmath.4516
Posted: Wed Feb  9 14:07:56 1983
Received: Thu Feb 10 00:21:55 1983

I think the uucp and usenet documentation should provide some better advice
to people choosing site names.   We seem to get all kinds of people who put
strings such as "vax", "70", or even "unix" in their site name.   When you
are limited to 7 characters, why put such useless information in your site
name.   When major domains start getting set up, this will not be as
important, but any site under the main north-american public network domain
will have to have something more meaningful than "vax" in their name.

One site I asked about this said they put "unix" in their name to point
out to management that it was a unix machine that gave network mail.
That may be a justification for a while, but in the end I think it's what
your machine is for or who owns it that is important, not what it runs or
what kind of hardware it is.