Latin diagnoses

[Curtis Clark]

At 12:53 PM 10/27/95 +0800, Nicholas S. Lander wrote:
>think it was Jim Croft (ANBG) who suggested quite some time ago that each
>and every taxon might have its own Internet address.  Perhaps the latter
>could be made the formal (ie scientific) name, and Latin names (or those in
>other languages, dead or alive) would be come rather like colloquial names
>are now.

"I'm sorry, but budget cuts force us to close down
californica.eschscholzia.papaveraceae.magnoliophyta.csupomona.edu; you'll
have to move your stuff to a commercial provider, compost.com.
Unfortunately, they are only running version 1.5a of the nameserver program,
so your taxon will now be cal_esc_pap_mag.compost.com."

At that point, one might almost hope that "Internet" would become a dead
language!

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