On Sun, 4 Feb 1996 22:02:12 -0600, "Ingrid H. Shafer" wrote: >Now for a *real* question (so I don't just clutter up everyone's >I have a friend (and co-listowner) who insists >on referring to our list as "this listserv." This bothers me... >Does anyone have a good, linguistically sound >reason for discouraging this habit? In the context of LSTOWN-L I take "this listserv" to mean the server at SEARN.SUNET.SE and NOT the list owners list (I'd refer to it as "this list"). A way of discouraging muddled communication is to reply to it's literal meaning (and WHO is on first anyway! :-) On Mon, 5 Feb 1996 08:00:32 -0400, Robert Ponterio wrote: >for some >reason "listserv" (with or without an "e") seems to have become the word >that most people use for "electronic mail distribution list". Time for L-Soft to roll out the lawyers before their tradename becomes generic (the way Aspirin did and Jell-O and Kleenex threaten to). /s Murphy A. Sewall <[log in to unmask]> (860) 486-2489 voice Professor of Marketing (860) 456-7725 fax http://mktg.sba.uconn.edu/MKT/Faculty/Sewall.html