On 12 Jan 2007 23:08:13 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert A. Rosenberg)
wrote:

>>Assuming that everyone on the planet has exactly one "middle initial".
>
>I remember a case where the program needed to accept NMI (for No 
>Middle Initial).

Of course Harry S Truman's middle initial was his middle name.   Same
thing for the stage name of Michael J Fox (who thought the "J" in
Michael J. Pollard sounded good).    But software keeps putting
periods after these initials even though they are not abbreviations.

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