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From: Mark Crispin <MRC@SU-SCORE.ARPA>
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Subject: lowercase host names
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Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 21:42:11 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 11 21:42:11 1985
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     I would like to consign to eternal damnation all these mailers
which think it is cute to use lowercase in host names.  Perhaps their
implementors should also suffer such damnation, but I'll settle for
mandatory schooling in human factors.

     Many terminals do not satisfactorily show the difference between
"1" (the numeral) and "l" (the letter).  On the terminal I'm using,
the difference is a single pixel.  It is not at all obvious that
"nyu-cmcl2" is "NYU-CMCL2" instead of "NYU-CMC12".  Those long UUCP
addresses get even worse.

     Getting a terminal with a better font is NOT the answer.
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