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Aucbvax.5572 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Sun Dec 27 01:21:24 1981 cast your vote for the new USENET name >From cbosgd!mark@Berkeley Sun Dec 27 01:09:00 1981 Well, the flurries of suggested new names for USENET has died down and now it's time to take a vote. I have selected several reasonable sounding finalists from the suggestions, which are enclosed here. Would anyone who cares about the new net name please send me a piece of mail with your vote. You can vote for more than 1, but be sure to rank them, since all but the first will only be used to break ties. Send arpanet mail to mark@berkeley, UUCP mail to ucbvax!cbosgd!mark or cbosg!cbosgd!mark.

For those who didn't see the last messages or have forgotten, USENET is the current name of the logical net of sites running the netnews programs. They make up an electronic distributed bulletin board. Much mailing-list-style discussion also takes place on this network. The name is being changed because an incredible number of people are confusing it with UUCP net.

Here are the finalists: USENET - current name of net (e.g. a vote not to change it) NETNEWS - current name of software NEWSNET - news network INFONET - information network EIDNET - electronic information distribution IDNET - information distribution. INDNET - Information and News Dispersal NETwork SPIDERNET - Best describes network topology. ARACHNET - from Greek mythology (based on spider's webs)

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