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From: tomlin@dspo.UUCP
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Subject: Re: lowercase host names
Message-ID: <199@dspo.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 12-Feb-85 20:15:59 EST
Article-I.D.: dspo.199
Posted: Tue Feb 12 20:15:59 1985
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>      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.
> -------

I would suggest getting a better terminal or getting glasses.

Blind rules (Lets make everything uppercase) never did anyone any good
I can make the same complaint of problems between differentiating between upper
case O and the number 0.  Which is it:

    DRI0 or DRIO	(its dri0)	Decision Resources, Inc.
    VUBIO1 or VUBI01	(its vubio1)	Biologisch Lab. der Vrije Universiteit,
					   afd. Plantenfysiologie,
					   werkgroep Fotosynthese
    SMOCNAM or SM0CNAM	(its sm0cnam)	CNAM - Laboratoire d'Informatique
    IEDLO2 or IEDL02	(its iedl02)	Industrial Electronics Development Lab
					   General Electric
    RIV04 or RIVO4	(its riv04)	Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en
					   Milieuhygiene
-- 
Bob Tomlinson - dspo!tomlin@LANL  or  {ucbvax!unmvax,ihnp4}!lanl!dspo!tomlin
Los Alamos National Laboratory - E-10/Data Systems
Los Alamos, New Mexico  -  (505) 667-8495