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Best Worst Server Name Awards Compendium: Page 8 of 42

Submitted By: Jan Stepka
Server Function: PDA, accounting host

Reasoning Behind Name: Lazy unimaginative installation tech
Server Name: server

 

Submitted By: Richard Nicolaus
Server Function: File server for a laundromat chain
Reasoning Behind Name: obvious

Server Name: Lint

 

Submitted By: RoseAnn Sibilio
Server Function: It was the Unix system that customer support logged into to connect with customer systems. However when you needed to telnet/ftp... to the system it could (and did) prove interesting.
Reasoning Behind Name: help
Server Name: help