diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b0c89dff7..556fb38b0 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2000-01-14  Gary Houston  <ghouston@arglist.com>
+
+	* configure.in: needs to have --disable-networking, not
+	--disable-net.
+
 2000-01-12  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
 
 	* libltdl/acconfig.h: New file: Needed by autogen.sh.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e139d71f8..ed335c2aa 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -126,12 +126,13 @@ added the autogen.sh script, which will reconstruct them
 appropriately.
 
 
-** configure has new options to remove support for certain features:
+** configure now has experimental options to remove support for certain
+features:
 
---disable-arrays   omit array and uniform array support
---disable-posix    omit posix interfaces
---disable-net      omit networking interfaces
---disable-regex    omit regular expression interfaces
+--disable-arrays     omit array and uniform array support
+--disable-posix      omit posix interfaces
+--disable-networking omit networking interfaces
+--disable-regex      omit regular expression interfaces
 
 These are likely to become separate modules some day.
 
diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index 809e10fe5..5d86a3c61 100644
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -6,8 +6,10 @@ Contributors since the last release:
        Jim Blandy
     Mikael Djurfeldt
       Gary Houston
+    Thomas Tanner
+    Marius Vollmer
 
-Bug reports and fixes:
+For fixes or providing information which led to a fix:
 
      Lauri Alanko
       Mark Galassi
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 2d060af5f..35a06fc4b 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE(posix,
   enable_posix=yes)
 
 AC_ARG_ENABLE(networking,
-  [  --disable-net           omit networking interfaces],,
+  [  --disable-networking    omit networking interfaces],,
   enable_networking=yes)
 
 AC_ARG_ENABLE(regex,