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Namechange: Wireless

dahamsta · 2003-07-15 19:58:44

Methinks Stonemason has raised a point. 95% of discussion on the Wireless forum is about mobile phones, wouldn't it be better named Mobiles / Wireless or summat? adam

15-07-2003 7:58pm

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Methinks Stonemason has raised a point. 95% of discussion on the Wireless forum is about mobile phones, wouldn't it be better named Mobiles / Wireless or summat?

adam

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#2 15-07-2003 8:07pm

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Hear hear.

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#3 15-07-2003 8:43pm

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/me nods in approval.

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#4 15-07-2003 10:58pm

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makes a certain amount of sense....

I'd like to hear the Mod's view on it first, I'll point this thread out to him tomorrow.

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#5 18-07-2003 8:50am

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#6 18-07-2003 9:54am

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While I would agree that four out of five threads are on mobiles, it does not preclude that one out of five is not (generally WAN/Hotspot related) - so the board is still a Wireless board, even if the emphasis is largely on the mobile side of things.

As such I wouldn’t have thought there was a major need to change the name, but given there appears to be support for such, if we really have to I would suggest changing it to Wireless/Mobiles as opposed to Mobiles so as not to close the door on non-mobile topics.

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#7 18-07-2003 11:01am

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Nobody suggested calling it Mobiles TC -- Mobiles/Wireless or Wireless/Mobiles would be fine. The suggestion is purely functional: /we/ know that mobies are in the wireless category but I reckon the majority wouldn't make the connection (har har). Stonemason didn't, for example.

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#8 18-07-2003 11:57am

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TC ... Hm ...

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#9 18-07-2003 12:04pm

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Beyond saying that "Wireless / Mobiles" seems to be a good choice and supported by all it seems, I just wanted to point out the humour in ecksor's sig:

Today's word is ... telephone

DeV.

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