Date:  Fri, 10 Oct 1997 16:58:53 -0400
From:  Evan Morris <words1[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]INTERPORT.NET>
Subject: Re: New word?

-----Original Message-----
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?