Hi jOe, Perhaps because it's not an acronym. ;-) And keep in mind that calling something "the" onion router would be rather incorrect as there are now multiple onion routing projects.
~Griffin Joe Btfsplk <[email protected]> wrote: >The "why called tOR" article says, >"/Note: even though it originally *came from an acronym,* Tor is not >spelled "TOR"/. >And why would that be? Other than in a kind of, "I'd now like to be >known as _The Artist Formerly Known As Prince_" sort of way, who made >up >the rule that an acronym would have only the first letter capitalized? >Even HAL 9000 - an "almost alive" computer - used all caps for an >acronym. :-; > >Did "they" consider it alive, so Tor is a proper noun, 1st & only name >(like Sting)? >If it's an acronym, it's supposed to be all caps (rarely, all lower >case). I doubt most people (not suffering from something) really care >if it's Tor, TOR, tOR, tOr... > >And newer people coming in may think it a bit strange to make a serious > >point, to not spelling it correctly, per widely accepted, international > >convention. :D >My name's not Joe, it's jOe. On rEmUlak, only interior vowels in >proper >nouns are capitalized. The Tor spelling issue sort of reminds me of >_The Anal Retentive Chef_ sketch (phiLL harTMan), on Sat. Night Live. > > * Cooking with the Anal Retentive Chef ><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurring_Saturday_Night_Live_characters_and_sketches_introduced_1988%E2%80%931989#Cooking_with_the_Anal_Retentive_Chef> > (Phil Hartman <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Hartman>) -- Sent from my tracking device. Please excuse brevity and cat photos. -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
