From: fwbrown@bellsouth.net 
  
 Russ Allbery  wrote: 
 > Jim Riley  writes: 
  
 >> How is "CLI" meaningful?  It's an abbreviation.  Why would a longer name 
 >> make it harder to find the group?  Wouldn't it also make it easier for 
 >> people to avoid the group?  If you had looked for such a group a month 
 >> ago, and next month it pops up among the new groups in your newsreader, 
 >> isn't common-language-infra more likely to attract your attention than 
 >> cli. 
  
 > So, do you think that comp.lang.common-business-oriented-language is 
 > clear?  Do you know what's discussed in that group?  Would you be able to 
 > find it if you wished to discuss that topic?  Would you locate it with a 
 > keyword search if you had no idea to look in comp.lang.* for such things? 
  
 My answers would be:  Yes, yes, probably, maybe.  Of course, COBOL is a 
 well-known acronym that means exactly what your example says.  CLI is 
 a well-known acronym that usually means something entirely different 
 from the subject of the proposed group, so the two cases aren't strictly 
 analogous... 
  
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