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From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: comp.text.tex
Message-ID: <2180@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 18 Dec 89 12:47:38 GMT
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In article <2173@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>, piet@cs (Piet van Oostrum) writes:
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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.

A number of people have replied that some news software can't cope with
upper case letters in newsgroup names. Sorry about that. Although I think
that that kind of software is broken, I retract the uppercase proposal and
make it comp.text.tex.
-- 
Piet* van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University,
Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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