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In article <1992Jul23.191855.24503@samba.oit.unc.edu>, Judy.Hallman@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Judy Hallman) writes:
>Meanwhile, we can use this newsgroup to bounce around ideas. For
>example, what do you think of the "city" model? Can you find things? Do

I think the "city" model is horribly corny.  Constantly having to
translate "city hall" (or whatever) into whatever it really
represents wastes human brainpower.

Besides, it's insidious cultural discrimination against us hicks
who live out in the country :-)  Why not call the various menu
selections "barnyard", "stable", "dung-heap", "trough", "silo",
etc., instead of "city hall", "court house", etc.?  :-)

Or maybe the suburbanites would like some terms they could
relate to, like "subdivision", "mall", "another subdivision",
"another mall", ...  :-)

But seriously -- it's *not* a city, it's a computer system for
storage, retrieval, and communication of information.  Why not
use words that describe its real functions?

(Note to those who have never used a FreeNet system:  the authors of
many such systems present the system to the user as if it were a
"city," with different functions or menu selections being given
cutesy names like "city hall" instead of a description of what
they really represent.  The cutesy names are supposed to be
analogous to the actual function the represent.)
-- 
Bruce Tindall, Core Testing Manager, SAS Institute Inc., Cary NC 27513