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Article #432Re: lowercase host names
From: David Roode
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 1985 03:13
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 1985 03:13
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I would like to agree with Mark. It has long been the custom that acronyms are capitalized. Why should Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Macsyma Consortium (MIT-MC), Stanford University, Artificial Intelligence (SU-AI), Bolt, Beranek and Newman Communications Corporation-F (BBNCCF), and the like NOTE be subject to conventions that have been established since the middle ages. (Did they have Acronyms in the Middle Ages? Did they name things with contractions composed of the first letter of each word in a title?) has anyone looked at host names and considered how high a percentage are ACRONYM-based? -------
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!ROODE@SRI-NIC.ARPA From: David Roode <ROODE@SRI-NIC.ARPA> Newsgroups: net.mail.headers Subject: Re: lowercase host names Message-ID: <8264@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 22:13:28 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.8264 Posted: Mon Feb 11 22:13:28 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 15-Feb-85 04:13:44 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 11