Martin Ebourne wrote: > On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 14:13 -0500, Adam Atlas wrote: > > On a related note, it makes me mad when announcements on my local NPR > > are giving some URL with a .org domain name and they feel they have to > > spell it out, "dot-O-R-G". I mean, come on. "Org" is about as phonetic > > as you can get. > > Alas, you might think so. Try having a .org email, then you'll be > surprised how often you need to spell it out. [My main email is martin > zepler org, but not registered to any lists.]
It's about a 50% chance that speaking my email address will result in the other person being confused and trying to use 'boggle.com'. An alarming proportion of the Great Unwashed think everything is under .com. Even .com.au confuses some locals. -- * Matt McLeod | mail: m...@boggle.org | blog: http://abortrephrase.com/ * --- People can do the work, so machines have time to think ---
