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From: jqj@HOGG.CC.UOREGON.EDU
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Subject: Re:  Terminology deplored
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Date: 21 Jul 89 20:49:01 GMT
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>Recently I have noticed the rise of the word "gate" as a contraction of
>"gateway" ...  The English language is too marvelous a machine to deserve
such maltreatment.

Here, here.  Although vigorous writing is concise, it is also precise.
The term "gate," and the term "gateway" when used in the loose ARPAnet
style, should both be banned when the intent is an IP-level router.
There is a perfectly good term, "router" that should be used instead,
so that "gateway" may be reserved for "application level gateways," one
step up the ARM from routers.

Only partially in jest, I remain,
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