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- From: SEB1525@MVS.draper.com (Steve Bacher)
- Subject: Re: More people would use gopher if ...
- Message-ID: <19921113081406SEB1525@MVS.draper.com>
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- Organization: Draper Laboratory
- References: <BxMJLI.n0B@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 13:14:00 GMT
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- In article <BxMJLI.n0B@news.cso.uiuc.edu>,
- lnosek@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Luke Nosek) writes:
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- > ... IT DIDN'T HAVE SUCH A STUPID NAME!!!
-
- ....
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- > I really like gopher - the access to information in such a format
- >is a great idea - but they oughta call it something that people can feel proud
- >about when they use it!
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- Since this is an alt. group, I feel free to pursue this thread... :-)
-
- Would you prefer that it be called something like "Network Information
- Retrieval Service"? That would either put everyone to sleep or make
- them think it was (worse) an IBM product.
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- Short, colorful, easy-to-remember, vivid names are GOOD.
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- Steve Bacher (Batchman) Draper Laboratory
- Internet: seb@draper.com Cambridge, MA, USA
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