Subject: Re: 4 letter codes - (long)
Date: Jul 14 16:05:40 1996
From: Don Baccus - donb at Rational.COM


George Stout (GEST) says:

>I don't know whether anyone else has troubles with four letter name codes
>when they appear in tweeters mail, but I do.

That's nice of you to post the list, I'm sure many folks will find it
useful.

Sounds like it might be time to remind folks that, oh, a year or year and
a half ago (I think) a semi-consensus formed over how to handle the
abbreviations: first appearance in a post, use the common name with
the abbreviation in parenthesis, then go ahead and feel free to use the
code thereafter.

Thanks again for posting the list, GEST!

- Don Baccus, Portland OR <donb at rational.com>
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