20 Jun
2001
20 Jun
'01
2:31 p.m.
Quoting "R. D. Davis" <rdd(a)smart.net>et>:
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Sellam Ismail wrote:
A good suggestion to be sure, but I myself must abandon my own
suggestion (USEfulNET) and go with USENET-0, which someone else
suggested. The reason is twofold: first, the obvious reason that
there is USENET (assumed to have a -1 appended) and a USENET-2
which came after it, so our "classic" USENET can be taken as a
recreation of something *before* -1 and needs to be -0; second,
the smart-ass programmer inside me knows that counting should
begin at 0 instead of 1, so having a -0 would remedy a most
disturbing situation. :-)
--
Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss(a)ou.edu
Why, USENET-Classic, of course :)
Here's a vote for Sellam's choice of naming! I like it!