Of these, what is the coolest naming scheme?'n#EvanPoll #poll

[mweston@mindly.social]

@evan I wouldn't have if you hadn't said what the four choices were. X.500 was slightly more accessible in my memory.

I was at Convergent Technologies when they produced the Server PC based on the then hottest CPU in town, the 386 (Intel used benchmarks run on it in ads). And Convergent produced what I think was just a port of VINES running on their Unix on the Server PC.

See https://ia904504.us.archive.org/3/items/bitsavers_convergentxchangeVinesSWProductSpecJun87_618683/CTIX_PC_Exchange_-_Vines_SW_-_Product_Spec_Jun87_text.pdf

I mostly worked on the Server PC BIOS, modified from Phoenix code. And debugging issues with DOS programs running on it, since saying the Server PC was IBM compatible was a marketing thing that probably didn't really matter in the end. I would have been in my 20s, in my second post college job.

[badrihippo@fosstodon.org]

@evan my bias towards #XMPP came through in my vote, but that X.500 thing looked pretty intriguing too. I think I've seen something like that somewhere...maybe #LDAP?

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@badrihippo either LDAP or SSL certificates, I'd guess.

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@mweston I want to remind you of how low the stakes are in this poll

[hakona@im.alstadheim.no]

@evan uucp mail routing is even cooler

"User barbox!user would generally publish their UUCP email address in a form such as …!bigsite!foovax!barbox!user. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@hakona I'm saving that for a future poll!

[jgoerzen@floss.social]

@evan This was fine, and you made me look up Banyan Vines. Amazingly, I've used all of the other 3 and recognized them

Next time, I would love to see my two favorite email options:

user%realhost@relayhost.com

node1!node2!ucbvax!decwrl!user

And a Fidonet bonus: John Goerzen@1:291/51

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@jgoerzen you got it

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@jgoerzen also, big props for knowing the arch/baz/bzr format. It's one of my faves.

[jgoerzen@floss.social]

@evan Oh yes, I was a fan of distributed version control from the very early days. Arch, tla, and baz -- then in about 2005 I migrated to darcs, writing https://github.com/jgoerzen/arch2darcs to convert a repo's entire history.

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@jgoerzen darcs was the first version control system I used for Laconica (now GNU Social). I really liked darcs!

[evan@cosocial.ca]

Thank you everyone! I find this topic kind of interesting. I have a nostalgic fondness for Streettalk addresses; I remember scrolling through hundreds of them in a company directory, learning about the physical and organizational topology from the naming structure.