Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!boulder!daemon From: jbs@FENCHURCH.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Siegal) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco Subject: capitalizing cisco Message-ID: <27247@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Date: 29 Sep 90 19:47:26 GMT Sender: daemon@boulder.Colorado.EDU Lines: 10 I vaguely recall that the correct English treatment is: [C]isco has requested that its name never be capitalized. That being ugly (and perhaps incorrect), the best alternative may well be to avoid using "cisco" at the beginning of a sentence (this being similar to the best way to avoid the use of "he" or "his" as the generic singular pronoun--recast the sentence in the plaural) Jeffrey Siegal