Re: Origin of the 'E' in SAGE.

[Steve Simmons <scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us>]

Elizabeth Zwicky <zwicky@pterodactyl.csd.sgi.com> writes:

>Let this be a lesson to you. There is no such thing as a temporary name.
>And don't get clever trying to avoid the problem either; as $groupname,
>the system administrator's group for New Jersey found out, there's just
>no such thing as a temporary name. Tom was *sure* they couldn't just keep
>what was obviously a variable name. He was outvoted. 

*chuckle*  The process works in the opposite direction as well.
SEMiSLUG was originally the SouthEastern Michigan Sun Local User
Group.  Sun eventually abandoned us, so we didn't stand for that
any more.  Eventually we made an Official Decision (one of about
four in our history).  SEMiSLUG now stands for `copy and convert'
because the name `dd' is already taken.

Membership in the group is predicated on understanding the name.

Don't bother to write and ask me to explain it.