Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site Glacier.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!nsc!Glacier!reid From: reid@Glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: fa and mod name wars: surrender Message-ID: <305@Glacier.ARPA> Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 11:58:55 EST Article-I.D.: Glacier.305 Posted: Thu Oct 31 11:58:55 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 06:28:19 EST Reply-To: reid@Glacier.UUCP (Brian Reid) Organization: Stanford University, Computer Systems Lab Lines: 15 Summary: Gilligan's island and mod.longnames.stupid both popular I think that the new mod.long-names.stupid are an idiocy of the same rank as 'cat -v' and the Dukes of Hazzard. Furthermore I am annoyed that they did not go through the hallowed "standard procedure" in net.news.group for reaching an alleged consensus. I will nevertheless convert Glacier to the New Regime in the interests of reducing net.chaos. My archives show that the new names were proposed, that a certain amount of discussion ensued, almost all of which was opposed to the new names, and then the new names were made official. If I were the editor of Laser-Lovers I would refuse to send it to a USENET gateway unless they transmitted it by its right name. -- Brian Reid decwrl!glacier!reid Stanford reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA