I didn’t realize how far these had fallen out of fashion. I maintained http://kenn.cr.k12.ia.us for a time, and it was so hard to remember that domain (scarcely easier than an IP address) until I tried to understand it. It’s now kennedy.crschools.us.
My high school is still at www-bths.stjohns.k12.fl.us, and if it wasn’t embedded in my fingertips from working IT there I’d have no idea how anyone is supposed to remember it.
I did sysadmin work for both a .k12.oh.us and a co.countyname.oh.us. Users at both hated the suffix on email addresses. The hierarchy appeals to the nerd in me but I understand the difficulty people had trying to communicate the addresses to others. (Both now use a .com and .gov domain, respectively...)
A more interesting question is probably something like, what’s the quietest (practical) way to move air around the room? My money is on a high-end ceiling fan.
If you have acceptable outside air, and quiet surroundings, and you have both low openings and high openings, you can get natural convection flows that move a good amount of air without much noise. Double hung windows are pretty good for this; you can open the bottom and the top of a single window and get air movement from that. Even better if you have windows on different sides of the room, open the top on one side and the bottom on the other. Typically inside air will escape the top window(s) and be replaced by outside air coming in the bottom window(s), and the moving air at the windows will tend to encourage air movement throughout the room. In a multi-story building with free air movement between floors, you can open windows on the top and bottom floors and get something similar. If that's not enough, using a fan to increase exiting air flow should help.
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As for the post you replied to, allow/deny are indeed the more descriptive terms for lists that allow/deny access. Descriptive terms are good and useful.
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