Xref: utzoo news.misc:2347 misc.misc:4116 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!cornell!rochester!udel!burdvax!ubbpc!wgh From: wgh@ubbpc.UUCP (William G. Hutchison) Newsgroups: news.misc,misc.misc Subject: Creative site names Keywords: site name uumail map files Message-ID: <431@ubbpc.UUCP> Date: 9 Dec 88 02:09:04 GMT Followup-To: news.misc Organization: UNISYS CS, Blue Bell, PA Lines: 68 How about a change of topic? Have you ever heard or said the late-comers lament about choosing a site name: "All the good names are taken already!!". Fret no more: here is the result of some creative brainstorming, passed through an almost up-to-date set of uucp map files. Help yourselves, but check the latest maps and news.newsites first! abstract dolphin if nothung simplex acausal double inittab notwork simula actor dracula inxs nova sodium ada dungeon isolde oliver soft addams duplex isomer opera somtow algebra dylan kafka optics south algol earl khan optimal sphere alkali ecce king orb stoker atreides egress klein orbison stout axolotl eiffel klink orson streams babel erasmus krypton otis sulfur babylon esse kungfu overflow sushi balgol essence laotsu oxygen tail baryon etalii lemma paradise tao base etc lemming pascal taxi basic etc lepton passwd techie bassack excess less percipi tellus baud fafnir lex perl tex baudot false lib pessimal then benegess farad limo pickle theory bin fiat lisp pico there bmw fiatlux list pied titania bozo filk locus piper tmp byte flambo logos porsche tristan calculus float luke portia troy caliban flop luther pragma turing carbon floppy matrix preppie tyre causal folly maze project u2 checker for mercator prolog until chess framis mercedes proof usr chevy general merge quaver veritas chili getty meson queen vino chlorine gilliam metal query vliw cisc glob metric queue vlsi cleese gks mex rdbms volatile clew group minor real ware cliff grue mode relative welles clone hades modula right wetware clu hamilton monty ring whale complex hamlet more risc while concrete hard mouser rose wino const hare muaddib rule word croft head nano scepter wuwei crypt heavy nibble schubert wyrms ctrl-d helium nil screamer yacc cube here nitrogen seal yuppie daemon holmes north semi zone dagoba hoop not sherlock zoom device horatio note shift zuse For the dirty-minded and illiterate, Nothung was Siegfried's sword in the Ring of the Nibelungen, it does not stand for "not hung" !! -- Bill Hutchison, DP Consultant rutgers!liberty!burdvax!ubbpc!wgh Unisys UNIX Portation Center "What one fool can do, another can!" P.O. Box 500, M.S. B121 Ancient Simian Proverb, quoted by Blue Bell, PA 19424 Sylvanus P. Thompson, in _Calculus Made Easy_