[HCoop-Discuss] [HCoop-Misc] name of new host

[Nathan Kennedy]

Adam Chlipala wrote:
> Terrence Brannon wrote:
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>> On 5/17/07, Nathan Kennedy <ntk at hcoop.net> wrote:
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>>>> Was there deliberation on the name for our new server?
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>>> If you care to donate another server for the co-op's use, you can feel
>>> free to name it as you please.  This issue was addressed long ago.
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>>>       
>> How was it addressed? You didn't answer my question. And, the naming
>> of fyodor was open to vote.
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>>     
>
> We had consensus on this list that the people donating hardware would be 
> allowed to name it.  Only ray declined to do so, and ntk assigned his 
> machine the name 'mire' based on a stand-out word from ray's e-mail that 
> offered to donate the server.  I have a feeling that no majority of 
> members dislikes any of the names enough now to want to bring on the 
> disruption that comes from changing the hostname of an already-deployed 
> UNIX machine.
All accurate except that Ray did not so much decline to name the server 
as fail to respond.  The name mire was indeed a "stand-out" word from 
his email in which he also suggested the appropriate recompense for the 
donation, something involving annual chanting in the mire.  I intended 
mire as a temporary name until he officially christened it, but he 
didn't, so it "stuck" (appropriately enough).  Renaming mire was 
suggested by myself but the consensus was to keep it.

-ntk