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From: smb@ulysses.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: The FUTURE of USENET     &     A slogan for USENET
Message-ID: <673@ulysses.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 28-Oct-83 12:41:33 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 28 12:41:33 1983
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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The name "USENET" was chosen as a deliberate variant on "USENIX" -- at the
time, we thought that the net might become the official network of USENIX.

		--Steve Bellovin