>>>Ken-
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>>>Guess I should have been more explicit. If people who don't frequent the UT, such as the newsgroups, lists, and Compuserve can participate, how should they do so?
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>>Just spread the word and tell them to join here and/or on Wiki, at least temporarily. Let's show how fast we are, because we do it all in Fox :).
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>Ooops, the phone rang and I forgot what I wanted to add: vote for Phoenix. As for the dying part, yes, it's always one old version of Fox which gets unhooked from the steel lungs when the new version is born - and just count the versions.
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>Besides, this will finally teach my folks back home to learn some spelling. They should spell it either phonetically, Feniks, or in the language of origin (which should be Greek, or ancient Egyptian :), Phoenix. I've seen all of the Fenix, Phonix, Pheniks etc...

We could also add Fennec (Vulpes zerda) - a little desert fox, see http://www.xmission.com/~hoglezoo/mammals/fennec.htm
http://www.bvet.admin.ch/artenschutz/d/vollzugshilfen/as110/hunde/vulpes_zerda.html

But really I vote for Phoenix.