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From: hornig@SCRC-QUABBIN.ARPA
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Subject: Re: lowercase host names
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Date: Tue, 12-Feb-85 11:51:43 EST
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    Date: Mon 11 Feb 85 18:39:32-PST
    From: David Roode <ROODE@SRI-NIC.ARPA>

    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?
    -------

I will accept this line of reasoning only if people are also willing to
allow hosts with names which are not acronyms to not be capitalized as
if they were.  I used to be the liaison for MIT-devMultics (capitalized
just so).  It was generally referred to by other hosts as MIT-DEVMULTICS
or Mit-Devmultics, both incorrect.

My mailbox now lives on SCRC-Stony-Brook.ARPA (soon to be
Stony-Brook.SCRC.Symbolics.COM).  I haven't even bothered to make our
own mailer deal with that.