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. -- Dave Crocker [email protected] bluesky: @dcrocker.bsky.social mast: @[email protected] +1.408.329.0791 Volunteer, Silicon Valley Chapter Northern California Coastal Region Information & Planning Coordinator American Red Cross [email protected] -- Internet-history mailing list [email protected] https://elists.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history - Unsubscribe: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/9b6ef0621638436ab0a9b23cb0668b0b?The%20list%20to%20be%20unsubscribed%20from=Internet-history