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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
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Subject: Re: A USENet domain (was Re: Domain Charters)
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Date: 1 Mar 90 00:27:41 GMT
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In article <15215@bfmny0.UU.NET> tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes:
>If you have ever read a message posted to the wrong group you may get a
>hint why naming is important.

I would venture that I have seen far more debate about names than I have
seen messages posted to the wrong group because the name confused the user.

I would also venture that any name is likely to attract misdirected postings,
some albiet less than others, but that the difference is certainly less than
the volume of debate on names.   So is the effort to change "sci" to
"sci,!sci.aquaria" for example.

And I didn't say names were of trivial importance, or at least didn't mean
to say that.  Just that their importance is far less than the volume of
traffic here would indicated, and more to the point, choosing the most popular
isn't the answer anyway.

I agree 100% with the other points -- that a name is there for outsiders
more than for insiders.  All this is an excellent reason not to choose the
name by popularity amongst those interested in the group.


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Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473