Many news media have style guidelines that call for long (more than four letters?) acronyms to be written in lower case, because they feel that otherwise the look of the long strings of caps is distracting to readers.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Klein Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 4:37 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Fw: Tax chooses dead language - Austalia P.P.S. Any news writer who spells it "Cobol" shows how knowledgeable they are about the language. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
