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From: asente@decwrl.UUCP (Paul Asente)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: do people"s names get changed from being on a net?
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Date: Mon, 29-Aug-83 14:40:11 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 29 14:40:11 1983
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An interesting counterexample to these theories about names changing to
avoid ambiguity occurred several years ago at Stanford.  At the time,
all our account names began with "CSD." to distinguish us from
operations research ("OR."), electrical engineering, and so forth.  So
my account name was "CSD.Asente" (pronounced "CSD dot Asente").
As a result of this, we all started to call each other simply "CSD",
allowing the context to disambiguate the reference.  Things did get a
little difficult when you'd get a message like, "CSD called while you
were out; call him back ASAP."  One person went by her middle name,
"dot."  (As in "CSD dot Smith").

	-paul asente