> The word is used liberaly all over the place. Make a DNS change and > listen to your registrar and/or your ISP tell you that the changes > may take 24-72 hours for "propagation" to take place.
I don't think you meant to address this reply to me, didja? Yours are my points as well: that the term has a well-known IT-centric interpretation, that that interpretation is relevant to current real-world experience of DNS, and that it's been embraced by technical representatives, so barring not-as-technical people from using is absurd. Len's point to the contrary is that, if (mis)taken at its dictionary, non-IT meaning, "propagation" is a myth--since it would then imply an outgoing, push broadcast from the domain/record owner--and so using the term is destructive, regardless of how fully the well-known IT meaning is conveyed. I'm usually a stickler for accurate usage of "techglish," but IMO this one is a lost cause (a.k.a. the stuff of flame wars between techies, a.k.a. mooting). --Sandy ------------------------------------ Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.mailmage.com/products/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/download/release/ Defuse Dictionary Attacks: Turn Exchange or IMail mailboxes into IMail Aliases! http://www.mailmage.com/products/software/freeutils/exchange2aliases/download/release/ http://www.mailmage.com/products/software/freeutils/ldap2aliases/download/release/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
