Re: What do you call your examples?

[Laura Lemay <lemay -at- lauralemay -dot- com>]

Ned Bedinger wrote:
I tend to go with Acme
> Backscratcher Mfg.  Feel free to use it :-)

I have a friend who owns the domain name acme.com.  He gets a LOT of 
email from confused users of various product manuals who used acme.com 
as a general example URL.

BTW example.com, example.net and example.org are reserved domain names 
specifically for use in documentation.  RFC2606.

Me, I like humorous examples, but I've been yelled at by editors in the 
past for doing that.  (humor does not translate, etc).  I do try to use
both male and female example names for people, and non-western names as 
well.

I've seen a fair amount of open source documentation using the example 
company name Initech recently -- its kind of an in-joke, that was the 
soulless company in "Office Space."

Laura
not enough flair



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