[Kolab-devel] How to call "non-home" server?

Joon Radley joon at radleys.co.za
Tue Feb 15 19:25:42 CET 2005


> -----Original Message-----
> From: kolab-devel-bounces at kolab.org
> [mailto:kolab-devel-bounces at kolab.org] On Behalf Of Bernhard Herzog
> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 8:10 PM
> To: Kolab development coordination
> Subject: Re: [Kolab-devel] How to call "non-home" server?
> 
> Bernhard Reiter <bernhard at intevation.de> writes:
> 
> > How to we want to call a non-home server or dimap accounts made to 
> > those servers?
> >
> > "non-home" does not seem to be the best termin.
> >
> > What about:
> >        - other Kolab-server
> 
> Perhaps a bit too generic
> 
> >        - remote
> >          (considering that the homeserver probably will be closer 
> >          network topology wise)
> 
> Any server is remote in the usual network sense.
> 
> >        - foreign folder account
> 
> All servers in a normal multi-location setup are related in some way.
> "Foreign" implies that it is not very related at all.  
> 
> > Any other ideas?
> 
> sibling?  It's a different server but belongs to the same family so to 
> speak.

Both "foreign" and "sibling" sounds good. We can also consider "Share-Only"
as it is a bit more descriptive.

Joon




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