Re: net.martyr

candycanearter07 <[email protected]>
Newsgroups alt.fan.usenet,alt.culture.usenet,news.groups
Organization the-candyden-of-code
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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]
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