Re: [atlarge-discuss] 006 Deciding Name for Organisation

["Richard Henderson" <richardhenderson@ntlworld.com>]

If we MUST use the atLarge name at all, I prefer worldatlarge.com /
world@large

We have to be distinctive - I've already admitted that I quite like the use
of the word "world" to indicate we represent the whole world, and it says to
ICANN and the public, hey! the whole world is involved in this - it's our
internet and we should be running it

Having said that, I'd still prefer a totally distinctive organisation name,
which defines us as a clearly independent movement

But I could live with worldatlarge.

AtLarge by itself seems bland in the extreme, is easily confused, is little
understood by most non-techy sorts (eg most of the world) - and I think to
claim to be THE at large might be challenged by other groups just now
(though our claim will be stronger as soon as we achieve our large
membership)

I'd go with world@large and then have uk@large, france@large etc etc....
even if we didn't get all the domain names, we could still link from the
central world@large page and title the national sites uk@large, etc , maybe
with shared logo etc.

Just thoughts...

Richard

----- Original Message -----
From: Alexander Svensson <alexander@svensson.de>
To: <atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de>
Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: [atlarge-discuss] 006 Deciding Name for Organisation


>
> Just a quick note on the naming issue: I believe atlarge.org would
> be a stupid choice -- people will confuse at-large.org and atlarge.org
> over and over again! Something with "At Large" is fine, but the name
> should not be confusingly similar to another existing group.



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