Keach, MoonMan, et al, Great forum, great subject, great participants and participation. Yes, 'periodically' has its time and it appears its time has come. Public THANKS to IPC for their support in ALL arena's. I for one do not appreciate the way some companies do business and although I did not partake in the thread I did read every posting and in the interest of expanding knowledge and documenting 'new vocabulary' I would like to present the following list for review by all. And if the discussion continues off-line please add my address to the distribution. Bloatware: Metastable: (I had the term "metastable" explained to me by being told to imagine a pyramid balancing on its point.) Microsloth: Microsuck: Microswill: Micro$oft: (Interesting note: This is the only term that Eudora spell check does not 'tag' as misspelled) Spondulacks: Thingummies: Weindoz: Windoze: Thanking one and all. If you would like to submit any other terms (off-line) I would be happy to add them. Daffynitions would also be appropriate. I will make the compiled list available to one and all later with an announcement as to where it can be found. Richard At 10:37 AM 1/7/02 -0600, Keach reminded us: >Periodically we have to send out a reminder that Technet is a technical >forum, for discussing electronics manufacturing issues. This is one of >those times. Since there are over 1,000 subscribers on the forum, there >will be occasional off-topic discussions that will stir up heated >discussion due to the subject and the number of people subscribed. -snip-