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From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: comp.text.TeX
Message-ID: <1989Dec17.193632.4414@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 17 Dec 89 19:36:32 GMT
Sender: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Organization: University of Rochester Computer Science Department
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|Now about the name: An other alternative would be comp.text.tex. I have a
|number of reasons to propose comp.text.TeX.
|1. It hono(u)rs Knuth in that this is HiS preferred spelling.
|2. Isn't it nice to have the first newsgroup with capital letters in its name?
|3. While pressing the shift key you have an additional 2 seconds to think
|   about your posting.
|NOTE: Please let us not have another aquarium disaster!

I support creation of the newsgroup but I think the capitalized
spelling would not survive news software, gateways and all that (I
don't really know). Anyway I don't think it is that important. If we
were really fanatic about the spelling we would name our binaries TeX
and LaTeX on Unix and give the users a hard time. I'd rather give my
little fingers a rest.