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Sun Nov 1 14:55:49 1981
More new name suggestions
The first thing I'd like to do is second Lauren's comment about
having some professionalism in any name choice. It hasn't come
up yet, but I'd much rather present management with ideas about
something called "Usenet" than "Lola" (e.g. to justify the phone
costs we are incurring).
Another point brought up by Lauren's comment is that we should be
careful of the names of existing services, esp. registered trademarks.
Now, for my suggestions:
telecon This is just a shortened form of one of Mark's
suggestions, referring to tele-conferencing. One
disadvantage I see is that (in my limited experience)
"tele-conferencing" typically connotes a \synchronous/
communications medium, which Usenet certainly isn't!
compucon Like "telecon", but meaning "computer conferencing",
which is exactly what Usenet provides.
info-ex Short for "information exchange". The longer phrase
"computer-based information exchange" is essentially
synonymous with "computer conference".
I know none of the above suggestions contain the word "net", but it seems
a bit tiresome to try to maintain that as a rule of forming names for
computer networks (e.g. ARPANET, CSNET, Usenet, Tele-net, Cognet, &
etc. ad nauseum). Also, computer science nomenclature not withstanding,
not all neologisms need be acronyms.
Paul Lustgarten
Bell Labs - Indian Hill
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