In-reply-to: <map=1994Feb07132636@gaak.bbn.com> (mail from Michael A. Patton on Mon 7 Feb 1994 13:26:36 -0500) From: "Michael A. Patton" <MAP@ nic.dsi.net>
As an amateur lexicographer I've thought a little bit more about the name question(*). I've tried a number of permutations of the words I like, and three interesting new combinations which form real words are:
- the Forum for Internet Operators in North America (FIONA)
how about Forum for Network Operations Related Discussion? <fnord> ---Rob
how about Forum for Network Operations Related Discussion?
<fnord>
---Rob
Forum for Internet Operations Related Discussion (FIORD)? What happenned to the North America part? Curtis BTW - Is the purpose of this exersize to provide an acronym that insures we don't take ourselves too seriously? (North American Internet Operations Discussions - NIRD)?
Nope, thats Northamerica Engineers for Reasonably Deployed Systems (NERDS) (actually, I like NOMINA) -- Regards, Bill Manning
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