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From: oc@vmp.UUCP (Orlan Cannon)
Newsgroups: news.groups,rec.video
Subject: Re: ***Call for discussion:  Rec.video.software***
Message-ID: <2721@vmp.UUCP>
Date: 25 Nov 89 18:42:42 GMT
References: <17100@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> <7970038@hpfcso.HP.COM> <2717@vmp.UUCP> <2718@vmp.UUCP>
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In article <2718@vmp.UUCP>, mathew writes:
| In article <2717@vmp.UUCP> you write:
| >In article <7970038@hpfcso.HP.COM> rjn@hpfcso.HP.COM (Bob Niland) writes:
| >>re: "...call for the discussion of a new newsgroup called rec.video.software"
| >... the stuff that is
| >stored on videotape is called "software." 
| 
| Throughout the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, perhaps. In this country I have NEVER
| heard anyone describe the contents of a video cassette as "software"
| 
| I will vote in favour of rec.video.titles or rec.video.releases. I will most
| definitely vote AGAINST rec.video.software if it is proposed. Usenet is no
| longer the exclusive province of the United States; you may be quite happy
| to butcher the English language, but don't try to foist your ill-chosen trendy
| jargon on us.

Mathew is quite correct that I am unfamiliar with British usage.  The
largest video industry group in the U.S. is called the "Video Software
Dealers Association."  Are there equivalents in other countries?

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