Aittvax.182 net.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ittvax!swatt Wed Jan 6 16:42:58 1982 allegra.176 - withdraw ARACHNET name I'm sorry, the name "Arachne" comes from the Greek Myths (they predate even DOS), so I regard it as open for anyone to use. For the curious: Arachne was a woman whose skill at weaving (and her own claims about it) was so great, it provoked a contest with the godess Athena. Needless to say, Athena won. To punish Arache for daring to compare herself to the gods, Athena turned her into a spider so she could weave forever. It is from this myth the biological classification "arachnids" is named. I fail to see how anyone can claim proprietary rights on a word that has been in common use for hundreds (thousands?) of years to name things like or pertaining to spiders. - Alan S. Watt (decvax!ittvax!swatt) ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.