Sanford Whiteman wrote:
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
Yeah, I was really just commenting on the whole thread.
I think we should always try to educate people, however, being dogmatic on certain terms which have been adopted, which aren't entirely correct, seems it could be a waste of time.
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