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Article #8360Re: A USENet domain (was Re: Domain Charters)
From: Brad Templeton
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 1990 00:27
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 1990 00:27
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In article <15215@bfmny0.UU.NET> tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes: >If you have ever read a message posted to the wrong group you may get a >hint why naming is important. I would venture that I have seen far more debate about names than I have seen messages posted to the wrong group because the name confused the user. I would also venture that any name is likely to attract misdirected postings, some albiet less than others, but that the difference is certainly less than the volume of debate on names. So is the effort to change "sci" to "sci,!sci.aquaria" for example. And I didn't say names were of trivial importance, or at least didn't mean to say that. Just that their importance is far less than the volume of traffic here would indicated, and more to the point, choosing the most popular isn't the answer anyway. I agree 100% with the other points -- that a name is there for outsiders more than for insiders. All this is an excellent reason not to choose the name by popularity amongst those interested in the group. -- Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cica!iuvax!maytag!looking!brad From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: A USENet domain (was Re: Domain Charters) Message-ID: <104382@looking.on.ca> Date: 1 Mar 90 00:27:41 GMT References: <_.W1K12xds8@ficc.uu.net> <1990Feb23.202301.3363@everexn.uucp> <38951@apple.Apple.COM> <11012@saturn.ADS.COM> <38983@apple.Apple.COM> <103276@looking.on.ca> <15208@bfmny0.UU.NET> <103905@looking.on.ca> <15215@bfmny0.UU.NET> Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd. Lines: 24 Class: discussion