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Subject:RE: New Age Doc Group Names From:Maggie Pierce Secara <maggiros -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 18 Jun 2003 22:10:12 -0700 (PDT)
I got the impression that the users were entirely
internal. Thus no need to impress the rest of the
country. It's true that joke names, by accident or
design, get old fast but at least it's not the
Committee to RE-Elect the President (CREEP). And if
it's just internal, well... in-jokes have their place.
Maggie Secara
--- John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com> wrote:
>
> You've seen the responses to this question...some of
> them pretty silly, huh?
>
> Seriously...do you want even 1 out of every 5 of
> your users to think the
> same thing, even just a little bit? Not everyone,
> even in CA, was born in
> CA. Shoot...MOST people in CA weren't born in
> CA...those that were now live
> in Oregon.
>
> >We don't need to impress the rest of the country,
> John. Thanks.
>
> By going that route, you're not even going to
> impress your part of the
> country.
>
=====
Maggie Secara
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