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.