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From: space@ncc1701.UUCP (Lars Soltau)
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Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: comp.text.TeX
Summary: name of the game
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Date: 18 Dec 89 17:18:28 GMT
References: <14650@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <2173@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> <2317@leah.Albany.Edu>
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In article <2317@leah.Albany.Edu> ms361@leah.Albany.Edu (Mark Steinberger) writes:
>In article <2173@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>, piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) writes:
>> I had been contemplating the creation of a newsgroup comp.text.TeX for some
>> days when Thomas' message appeared. As I haven't seen an official call for
>> discussion yet, I think it is time to issue one.
>
>You missed the obvious name for the newsgroup:
>
>      comp.tex
>
>If you insist, make it comp.TeX, but the intervening "text" is unnecessary.
>
>I would support creation of this group.
>
>--Mark

This group is absolutely necessary.
But as for the name, I believe it should be comp.text.TeX, because
a) it has to do with text processing. It obviously isn't on the same level
   as for example comp.sys or comp.sources, is it?
b) as Piet said, TeX would not be TeX if it was tex. It's tau epsilon chi,
   for all of you who don't know TeX (then again, you wouldn't be reading
   this article if you didn't know TeX, would you?), so tex just doesn't
   feel right.
   Just because MS-DOS supports only capitals doesn't mean we have to use
   only lowercase, right? :-)


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