Re: 'nother question

[Paul Lussier]

In a message dated: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 19:48:37 EST
Benjamin Scott said:

>  Just to prove that I'm even more pedantic... ;-)
>
>> ... I'll point out that BIND is an acronym, which when correctly written
>> (at least in the English language) is ALWAYS all in upper case ...
>
> But, on Unix systems, most things tend to be written in all lower case, even
>when they are acronyms or proper nouns.  This convention appears to override
>"proper English" [1] in the vast majority of cases.

resolv.conf and web browsers not withstanding, I disagree :)

        It's properly referred to as:           Not:
        -----------------------------           --------        
        NIS                                     nis
        NIS+                                    nis
        BIND                                    bind
        DNS                                     dns
        TCP/IP                                  tcp/ip
        UDP                                     udp
        MAC                                     mac
        HTTP                                    http
        HTML                                    html
        SGML                                    sgml                                   
 XML                                     xml
        POSIX                                   posix
etc....
-- 

Seeya,
Paul
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