Re: net.martyr
candycanearter07 <[email protected]>
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Frank Slootweg <[email protected]> wrote at 18:54 this Thursday (GMT): > Adam H. Kerman <[email protected]> wrote: >> Frank Slootweg <[email protected]> wrote: [snip] >> I've always used "institutional", for groups related to a company or >> university. >> >> In newsgroups in which discussion is supposed to be related to >> geography, I use the term "regional". If there's discussion without >> relating it to geography, then "international". > > Thanks for sharing your views. > >> My terminology hasn't caught on. > > Yeah, neither have mine. Bummer! :-) > > Terminology will always be a problem. So we can only explain what we > mean in a given situation/context (assuming someone *asks* what we mean, > instead of jumping to the wrong conclusion). Yeah, it can get annoying fast. The overlapping of definitions does not help. [snip] -- user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom