Re: TCP adoption in 1984

Dave Crocker via Internet-history <[email protected]>
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On 5/3/2026 3:23 PM, Steve Crocker via Internet-history wrote:
> We had difficulty choosing our network name.


And, indeed, The Goldilocks Principle applies to UX-related naming 
issues, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldilocks_principle


d/

ps. For MCI Mail, a user's 'address' was their name, canonicalized to 
remove obvious prefixes and suffixes.  So we could remove PhD but 
decided not to remove MA in case Yo Yo Ma wanted to use our system.

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