Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 16:58:53 -0400

From: Evan Morris words1[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]INTERPORT.NET

Subject: Re: New word?



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From: Gareth Branwyn GarethB2[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM

To: ADS-L[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UGA.CC.UGA.EDU ADS-L[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UGA.CC.UGA.EDU

Date: Friday, October 10, 1997 4:38 PM

Subject: Re: New word?





Maybe I just haven't been paying attention and this word is already widely

used, but it's new to me. The following message appeared today in another

list:



My messages to . . . keep getting bounced back---does anyone have a

new edress (are you there . . .)?



It is, in fact, in use, though I'm not sure how widely. I first heard it

used

by John Plunkett, the art director at Wired, and I think it's it fairly

widespread usage throughout Wired Ventures. I'm surprised it's not in Wired

Style. I almost included it in the book version of Jargon Watch and I'm not

even sure why I didn't. A quick search on AltaVista yields 259 matches

(Web)

and 49 (Usenet).





Rats. I thought we were saving "edress" for Microsoft Virtual Clothes.

Which way to the egress?