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From: David Roode <ROODE@SRI-NIC.ARPA>
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Subject: Re: lowercase host names
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Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 22:13:28 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 11 22:13:28 1985
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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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