Xref: utzoo alt.flame:15422 news.groups:17690 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!mit-eddie!bu.edu!bu-cs!bu-pub.bu.edu!ckd From: ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu (Christopher Davis) Newsgroups: alt.flame,news.groups Subject: Re: A capital idea Message-ID: Date: 13 Feb 90 02:08:30 GMT References: Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Reply-To: ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu (Christopher Davis) Followup-To: alt.flame,misc.test Organization: Boston University School of Management Lines: 30 In-reply-to: jeffd@ficc.uu.net's message of 12 Feb 90 20:13:34 GMT >>>>> On 12 Feb 90 20:13:34 GMT, jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell) said: > Someone [me --ckd] wrote: > > From: jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell) > [...] > > (4) Literate people capitalize proper names. > [...] > > Q.E.D. > Nope. I'm innocent. The from line is produced automatically, > by the software. Blaming the software? If you're using most newsposters, you can set an environment variable to put the name in. If all else fails, you can even use chfn(1). As Hong C. Choong once said to someone else who blamed the software for their error--"Real men read news at the NNTP server." --Chris Davis (ckd@128.197.21.13) PS: You can always just shout over the cubicle walls and ask Peter, y'know. -- Christopher Davis, BU SMG '90 NETWORK PLANNING CONSTRAINT OF THE MONTH: "You can't send bits over a non-existent link." --Valdis Kletnieks