If you got it, you wouldn't be putting up a straw man of long server names like "production-mail-server-and-occasional-nas-file-server" so no, you really don't

If you got it, you wouldn't be putting up a straw man of long server names like "production-mail-server-and-occasional-nas-file-server" so no, you really don't get it because you aren't listening. You can have short server names that are easy to type AND still use actual words. Typing prd instead of prod is not saving you anything worth saving nor making server names easier to type or remember no matter how many there are. While production-mail-server-and-occasional-nas-file-server is an absurd name, it was your example so I assume part of the scheme in this big network, but you'd just have well crammed all the same info into... prod-mail-file Without abbreviations and without losing the meaning. > and they have good reasons to do so. Yea, inertia.