NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/can/domain/31

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Newsgroups: can.domain
Path: sparky!uunet!newsflash.concordia.ca!mizar.cc.umanitoba.ca!rahardj
From: [e-mail] (Budi Rahardjo)
Subject: Re: Domain naming conventions
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Sender: [e-mail]
Nntp-Posting-Host: niven.cc.umanitoba.ca
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
References: <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 05:47:13 GMT
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In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Stuart Lynne) writes:

>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Chris Shaw) writes:
>>Thousands of studies of human memory performance bear this out. Postal
>>codes (and other seemingly random strings of letters and digits) are harder
>>to remember than place names.

>You will of course give us some journal references so we can check out this
>assertion.

I can't point to a particular reference, but I do maintain some mailing lists.
And from my experience it's easier to remember userid/domain with
longer-but-readable words than series of 'random' letter and digit.
I have to look more carefully when dealing with 'random' letters and numbers
(hey, sometimes an 'l' looks like a '1').

IMHO, '[e-mail]' is easier to remember than '[e-mail]'.
If there is a typo, say 'bison' -> 'nison', you'll get bounced mail, but
when 'r3t' -> 'r4t', you'll get somebody else's account :-)


-- budi
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Budi Rahardjo <[e-mail]>
Unix Support - Computer Services - University of Manitoba