Re: Net.motss??
Mark Horton (mark@stargate.COM)
13 Nov 90 22:07:56 EST (Tue)
The original request was for net.gay, I think. The paranoia was that
if net.gay appeared on the published list of newsgroups, some higher
management person who had barely heard of Usenet would see it, raise
a fuss, and pull the plug from some backbone machine, and the whole
net would come crashing down. The compromise reached was to call it
net.motss, figuring all the people on the net would know what it meant
but the folks who didn't know much about the net would pass it by.
Mark
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