# Thing in cave *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 15 Jun 1998* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Alice Turner *15 Jun 1998, 17:05* Maybe I should stick to one controversy at a time, but I'm squarely in step with SBear on that walking tower machine. I hadn't meant to be sarcastic (as someone seemed to think) when I called them taluses, btw, but had momentarily forgotten about the caterpillar treads. As for Vironese names; all I meant is that it can help when there are duplicate names. We have only one Adam, so that isn't a problem. But I felt uncomfortable, at least at first, referring to "Borski," while "Robert" would have been confusing. And two names is too long, especially in the heat of battle. -alga- ---