Date:  Fri, 10 Oct 1997 16:37:51 -0400
From:  Gareth Branwyn <GarethB2[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM>
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).

Gareth

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Gareth Branwyn
garethb2[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]aol.com, http://home.earthlink.net/~garethb2/

Contributing editor, Wired
Co-author _Happy Mutant Handbook_ , _Internet Power Toolkit_
Author, _Jargon Watch: A Pocket Dictionary for the Jitterati_