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From: gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith)
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Subject: Re: Hum sounds funny (was: A Hum Domain)
Message-ID: <1990Feb8.063809.21009@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 8 Feb 90 06:38:09 GMT
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In-reply-to: jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell)

In article <_QK1FDExds8@ficc.uu.net>, jeffd@ficc (jeff daiell) writes:
>In article <7303@yunexus.UUCP>, gall@yunexus.UUCP (Norm Gall) writes:
>> Call it Huma...

>> hum sounds like something one might do while doing light work.

>hum is better.  Huma sounds and looks like a full proper name (altho
>in what language I dinna know), and might confuse folks.

  I think it would be better to remove a letter and produce
a "hu" domain than to add one.
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