S Woodside wrote: [..] > Novices, who know english but not the internet, > may be confused. Forgive me for not thinking it insightful to observe that technical terminologies are often confusing to novices. This insight is hardly a compelling argument for gratuitous word substitutions. Likewise a dictionary is hardly a compelling substitute for going direct to the paper(s) in which the end to end principle has been articulated. cheers, gja -- Grenville Armitage http://caia.swin.edu.au I come from a LAN downunder.