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  • Subject: Re: Changing System Name
  • From: "Joe Teff" <jteff19@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 17:27:46 -0600

I take exception to your statement. Simple, easy to remember names are just 
that. I don't believe it makes them a WISEASS! I don't call you names, return 
the courtesy. A system name is a system name. It has to be identified before 
you can use it. What's obvious to you is not to everyone else.

Joe Teff
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> We are a consultant group. We name our systems and customers' systems as
> vanilla (read: same as out of the box) as possible. When we have to
> communicate with them, there are no surprises (read: some wiseass named them
> after Star Wars). 
> 
> Our greatest horror is to have a new customer call with an immediate support
> problem, only to have to wade through hours on-line determining what an ex-
> programmer had set up to help him (or her) pad a resume before leaving. 
> 
> If all you do is in-house work, do whatever you will. If you need to
> communicate with the outside world, don't kid around with your naming
> standards. This is a business machine, after all.
> 
> Just my $.02
> 
> Hank Heath
> root
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