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  • I need a four-letter abbreviation for newsgrouper (for the archives)

    From Marion@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 24 04:53:00 2025
    I'm always striving to set up stuff (that I can) for everyone.
    Particularly easily remembered URLs to the web archives such as:
    <https://tinyurl.com/news-admin-peering>

    We already have a four-letter abbreviation for Nova-BBS (i.e., nova).
    But what's a good four-letter easily remembered one for newsgrouper?

    The reason I need it is I'm creating an archive reference that EVERYONE can
    use so it must make sense and yet be easily remembered by your mother.

    Newsgrouper is too long (IMHO).
    As is grouper (IMHO).
    And "News" is too generic (although it might be the best after all).

    Any suggestions?

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  • From Colin Macleod@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 24 13:06:45 2025
    Marion <[email protected]> posted:

    I'm always striving to set up stuff (that I can) for everyone.
    Particularly easily remembered URLs to the web archives such as:
    <https://tinyurl.com/news-admin-peering>

    We already have a four-letter abbreviation for Nova-BBS (i.e., nova).
    But what's a good four-letter easily remembered one for newsgrouper?

    The reason I need it is I'm creating an archive reference that EVERYONE can use so it must make sense and yet be easily remembered by your mother.

    Newsgrouper is too long (IMHO).
    As is grouper (IMHO).
    And "News" is too generic (although it might be the best after all).

    Any suggestions?

    ngrp ?

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  • From Salvador Mirzo@21:1/5 to Colin Macleod on Mon Feb 24 20:46:03 2025
    Colin Macleod <[email protected]d> writes:

    Marion <[email protected]> posted:

    I'm always striving to set up stuff (that I can) for everyone.
    Particularly easily remembered URLs to the web archives such as:
    <https://tinyurl.com/news-admin-peering>

    We already have a four-letter abbreviation for Nova-BBS (i.e., nova).
    But what's a good four-letter easily remembered one for newsgrouper?

    The reason I need it is I'm creating an archive reference that EVERYONE can >> use so it must make sense and yet be easily remembered by your mother.

    Newsgrouper is too long (IMHO).
    As is grouper (IMHO).
    And "News" is too generic (although it might be the best after all).

    Any suggestions?

    ngrp ?

    ounds like newsgroup. I'd we should stress the ``group/er/''. So I
    suggest we think of newsgrouper as just ``grouper'' and then a 4-letter
    could be grpr. If beginning with an n is necessary, then perhaps ngpr.

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  • From Marion@21:1/5 to Salvador Mirzo on Tue Feb 25 02:39:22 2025
    On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 20:46:03 -0300, Salvador Mirzo wrote :


    Marion <[email protected]> posted:

    I'm always striving to set up stuff (that I can) for everyone.
    Particularly easily remembered URLs to the web archives such as:
    <https://tinyurl.com/news-admin-peering>

    We already have a four-letter abbreviation for Nova-BBS (i.e., nova).
    But what's a good four-letter easily remembered one for newsgrouper?

    The reason I need it is I'm creating an archive reference that EVERYONE can >>> use so it must make sense and yet be easily remembered by your mother.

    Newsgrouper is too long (IMHO).
    As is grouper (IMHO).
    And "News" is too generic (although it might be the best after all).

    Any suggestions?

    ngrp ?

    ounds like newsgroup. I'd we should stress the ``group/er/''. So I
    suggest we think of newsgrouper as just ``grouper'' and then a 4-letter
    could be grpr. If beginning with an n is necessary, then perhaps ngpr.

    Thanks. I'm working on it. It will be a few days as it takes time to set
    this up for everyone so that it's *easiest* to remember.

    This is my third time doing this, but it's for everyone, not just for me.
    So it's worth the effort.

    I'll respond when I have the nucleus set up for folks to test.

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