[H-GEN] Hostnames in meeting.humbug.org.au

[David O'Brien]

 El Mar 17 Ago 2004 08:15, Tony Bilbrough escribió:
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> G'day All,
> in an earlier part of the thread it was written that a couple of hundred
> ip address's were used.
> Now from my vague memories of school boy Chemistry, Latin and Greek, the
> total number of elements came to about 120 something?
> And a lot of those are a right bugger to spell, trust me.
> So hard in fact that my spell checker had no idea what I was trying to
> write in lieu of the above line.
>
> So I asked Swambo what she thought. Her solution was to prefix a colour
> to the easily spelt element vis
> red_oxygen, blue_oxygen and so on. Just a few colours, and the more
> phonetically spelt elements.
> Brilliant, I reckon.
>

or, 1_potato, 2_potato, 3_potato...  :-)

David


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