Acwruecmp.32 net.news utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!cwruecmp!ordy Tue Jan 12 20:07:01 1982 Naming Scheme Re: net and pers As someone who prefers .c and .s and .o to things like .FOR and .OBJ and .BAS, perhaps after the news group names are ironed out we could remove all the sometimes misleading prefixes, and replace the multiletter prefixes with one char, for example: n.news, or p.ham-radio. No doubt 'net' is more descriptive than 'n', however is 'pers' easily decipherable? Personally I prefer shorter names, if the longer name is not exceptionally descriptive. Perhaps q.jokes? Just a thought. Greg Ordy ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.