Azeppo.113 net.news utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!zeppo!trb Mon Nov 2 11:53:36 1981 What's in a Name? How about PEAK-FREEN-NET? We're very serious, cookie. I think this very serious stuff is ridiculous. One can't live very long with a cork jammed in one's anal orifice. I'd rather use Lola than USENET. Calling it something like INFONET or NEWSNET has no character, and would make it hard to distinguish from other networks. Any form of the words teleconferencing or telecommunications will make me sick. There is already an ARPANET TELECOM list, which rightly discusses telecommunications. A network which just uses telcommunications should not be called TELECOMNET, it's just too vague. COMMUNET might stir up the Americans out there, accent on first or second syllable. So far, I like ARACHNET best, spiderwebs and bugs... And speaking of Webb, much more discussion on this topic, and this could turn into a DRAGNET. Andy Tannenbaum BTL Whippany ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.