Survey: best name for a newborn baby boy?
 

What do you think among these 3 choices? thanks for any input!

http://www.thepollspace.com/polls.ph...=75&category=0

Survey: best name for a newborn baby boy?
 

"JohnZhang" wrote in message
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What do you think among these 3 choices? thanks for any input!

http://www.thepollspace.com/polls.ph...=75&category=0


Nick, Steve, Bob? They're all nicknames of proper names.

Survey: best name for a newborn baby boy?
 

JohnZhang wrote in
ups.com:

What do you think among these 3 choices? thanks for any
input!

http://www.thepollspace.com/polls.ph...=75&category=0

did you mean to use Nicolas, Steven (Stephen) or Robert? i
certainly hope so, because actually naming the poor child with
a diminuative is unkind. it's hard enough to get along in the
adult world without being saddled with a 'baby nickname' as
your given name.
in any case, none of those names would be a blip on my boy
name radar. i especially dislike Steven, having grown up with
a sociopathic neighbor with that name.
lee

Survey: best name for a newborn baby boy?
 

enigma wrote:
JohnZhang wrote in
ups.com:

What do you think among these 3 choices? thanks for any
input!

http://www.thepollspace.com/polls.ph...=75&category=0

did you mean to use Nicolas, Steven (Stephen) or Robert? i
certainly hope so, because actually naming the poor child with
a diminuative is unkind. it's hard enough to get along in the
adult world without being saddled with a 'baby nickname' as
your given name.
in any case, none of those names would be a blip on my boy
name radar. i especially dislike Steven, having grown up with
a sociopathic neighbor with that name.
lee

It is also unkind to spam. That is what the OP is doing. He doesn't care
about popular names. He cares about getting money.

Jeff

Survey: best name for a newborn baby boy?
 

Jeff wrote in
news:GuS9i.9633$fX4.2944@trndny03:


It is also unkind to spam. That is what the OP is doing. He
doesn't care about popular names. He cares about getting
money.

unless he's the owner of pollspace, which i sincerely doubt,
he's not getting any money for people looking at or clicking
on his poll. therefore, it is not spamming.
i don't like spam any more than you do (& probably less,
since i was a sys admin at an ISP), but you really need to get
a grip sometimes Jeff :) why don't you get a real newsreader,
with real filters, & save yourself some aggrivation?
lee

Survey: best name for a newborn baby boy?
 

On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 11:01:57 +0000 (UTC), enigma wrote:

JohnZhang wrote in
ups.com:

What do you think among these 3 choices? thanks for any
input!

http://www.thepollspace.com/polls.ph...=75&category=0

did you mean to use Nicolas, Steven (Stephen) or Robert? i
certainly hope so, because actually naming the poor child with
a diminuative is unkind. it's hard enough to get along in the
adult world without being saddled with a 'baby nickname' as
your given name.

Maybe the guy doesn't know English and those names sound fine in his
language?

Survey: best name for a newborn baby boy?
 

In article , enigma says...

Jeff wrote in
news:GuS9i.9633$fX4.2944@trndny03:


It is also unkind to spam. That is what the OP is doing. He
doesn't care about popular names. He cares about getting
money.

unless he's the owner of pollspace, which i sincerely doubt,
he's not getting any money for people looking at or clicking
on his poll. therefore, it is not spamming.
i don't like spam any more than you do (& probably less,
since i was a sys admin at an ISP), but you really need to get
a grip sometimes Jeff :) why don't you get a real newsreader,
with real filters, & save yourself some aggrivation?
lee


You know what?

I think filters and killfiles are all well and good and use them some.

But that doesn't mean that these kinds of things aren't part of a creeping crud
that has been crapping up Usenet in general, and contributing to its overall
decline.

I mean, why *should* we all have to chase these ever-shifting nyms and topics in
killfiles??!? It's a drag. As in a waste. Of time and energy and attention
and bandwidth. It's a putoff for a lot of users. I'm glad for Jeff's
netcopping. Even if this wasn't exactly spam or commercial stuff.

Banty

Survey: best name for a newborn baby boy?
 

In article , toypup says...

On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 11:01:57 +0000 (UTC), enigma wrote:

JohnZhang wrote in
ups.com:

What do you think among these 3 choices? thanks for any
input!

http://www.thepollspace.com/polls.ph...=75&category=0

did you mean to use Nicolas, Steven (Stephen) or Robert? i
certainly hope so, because actually naming the poor child with
a diminuative is unkind. it's hard enough to get along in the
adult world without being saddled with a 'baby nickname' as
your given name.

Maybe the guy doesn't know English and those names sound fine in his
language?

And if we proposed Sasha or Dima for a boy child, and a Russian speaker object
that those are diminuitives for real names, would you accept as a defense "oh
well, we don't know Russian and those names sound fine in our language"?

It's a perfectly valid objection.

Banty

Survey: best name for a newborn baby boy?
 

Banty wrote:

You know what?

I think filters and killfiles are all well and good and use them some.

But that doesn't mean that these kinds of things aren't part of a creeping crud
that has been crapping up Usenet in general, and contributing to its overall
decline.

To be quite honest I think there's a lot less spaming now than when I
was reading in 2000. (hey, there's hardly any c*r* spam in m.k.p!)
I think the overall decline has a lot to do with "uneducated" internet
users. I think back in 2000 most users had some sort of
university/college background, at least I'm sure that was the case in
germany. And I think it's still laregly the case. I have a friend who's
been online almost as long as I have (1996/97) and she doesn't even know
about usenet, she uses Forums all the way.

Forums are a lot more acessible than usenet, they're easy usually to
navigate, there's moderators/administrators you can turn to in case
something turns nasty, or they'll step in themselves as it happens.
Usenet is different, we do our own "moderating", sometimes a thread gets
out of hand, but so what? I know how to kill a thread in my newsreader,
I don't have to read spam if I don't want to. And personally I think the
information I get here is usually better than what I would get in a Forum.

just my 2 (euro)cents ;-)

nicole

Survey: best name for a newborn baby boy?
 

On 7 Jun 2007 07:53:36 -0700, Banty wrote:

In article , toypup says...

On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 11:01:57 +0000 (UTC), enigma wrote:

JohnZhang wrote in
ups.com:

What do you think among these 3 choices? thanks for any
input!

http://www.thepollspace.com/polls.ph...=75&category=0

did you mean to use Nicolas, Steven (Stephen) or Robert? i
certainly hope so, because actually naming the poor child with
a diminuative is unkind. it's hard enough to get along in the
adult world without being saddled with a 'baby nickname' as
your given name.

Maybe the guy doesn't know English and those names sound fine in his
language?

And if we proposed Sasha or Dima for a boy child, and a Russian speaker object
that those are diminuitives for real names, would you accept as a defense "oh
well, we don't know Russian and those names sound fine in our language"?

It's a perfectly valid objection.

Banty

Yes, in their own country. In our country, the child would not feel
saddled with a diminuitive, because the majority of the people would not
know it is a diminuitive.

SIL has a foreign name which sounds fine here. When she went to the
country from which it origniates, the natives were puzzled, because it
would not be something anyone there would want to name their own child.
IL's found it amusing, because they were trying to give her a name related
to her roots. SIL has never felt saddled with that name, neither as an
adult nor as a child.