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From: andy@shasta.stanford.edu (Andy Freeman)
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Subject: Re: Those big, big books
Message-ID: <8701010506.AA22019@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Wed, 31-Dec-86 16:13:01 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 31 16:13:01 1986
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References: <8612310227.AA03918@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
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Reply-To: Shasta!andy@shasta.stanford.edu (Andy Freeman)
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Keywords: SRI, Stanford
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Summary: SRI isn't part of Stanford, SRI isn't an acronym

In article <8612310227.AA03918@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> you write:
>							 And the publisher:
>should SRI be referred to as Stanford Research Institute, and should the
>name of the DDN be spelled out?
>
>Charles Bacon   (301)496-4823, or, Bldg. 12B, National Insts. of Health,
>                                   Bethesda, Md. 20892
>        or even CRB@NIHCUDEC.bitnet

SRI is not an acronym.  It is short for SRI International.  SRI
was spun-off from Stanford more than 15 years ago and one of the
conditions of the spin-off is that SRI can't use Stanford in its
name.

-andy
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