RE: What to call that direction/redirection/routing thing

["Iacovou, Danny" <danny.iacovou@ebenx.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Douglis [mailto:douglis@research.att.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 1:17 PM
> Subject: Re: What to call that direction/redirection/routing thing 
 
 
> The problem for me with this term and some of the others is 
> that one isn't 
> actually giving the final answer... one is just pointing in a 
> direction that 
> will eventually lead to the final answer.  From that 
> standpoint, "steering" is 
> actually pretty good, because it suggests a redirection that might be 
> temporary (further redirected later) or final.  But it just 
> doesn't sound 
> right because it's not intuitive -- people can't read the 
> term and understand 
> it.  

  how about "petition", "petitioner" and the like