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   Hi, Ardith Hinton - Alexander Koryagin!   
   I read your message from 01.10.2022 01:56   
      
    ak>> Which way in writing the word "fidonet" is the most correct:   
    ak>> 1. fidonet   
    ak>> 2. Fidonet   
    ak>> 3, FIDONET   
      
   Thanks for all who answered! I am writing a reference manual where I describe   
   how to write messages to FIDO properly (using my program) :) Time has changed,   
   and Google give us now strange answers to the question "what FIDO means" ;)   
   But probably it is important to know in case FIDO is an abbreviation.   
      
    AH> This apparently simple question has brought all sorts of   
    AH> interesting people out of the woodwork. Give yourself a gold   
    AH> star... [chuckle].   
      
   We should blame the love for the subject. ;)   
      
    AH> #2 seems to be most common nowadays. I hear what Nil is saying, and   
    AH> remember when the /N/ was usually capitalized. But native speakers   
    AH> of English tend to shorten or simplify words according to what   
    AH> seems easier... whether or not it makes sense to others. Either way   
    AH> I'd capitalize the /F/ here because, as the name of an   
    AH> organization, "Fidonet" is a proper noun.   
      
   Yes, probably another words as Usenet, Internet give us the idea in general.   
      
    AH> You may notice #3 as a user on someone else's system where the   
    AH> names of various echoes are spelled entirely in capital letters.   
    AH> Dallas & I do much the same. According to the way we were taught,   
    AH> the names of books & magazines are underlined when you're writing   
    AH> things out by hand or using ye olde antique typewriter which allows   
    AH> you to type more than one character in the same space. With typeset   
    AH> material &/or articles found on the Internet such names generally   
    AH> appear in italics. The objective, as I see it, is to make the title   
    AH> stand out from whatever you or I have to say... and we do the best   
    AH> we can. When you see me spell ENGLISH_TUTOR or FIDONEWS or   
    AH> FIDONET.TELEGRAM in capital letters, I'm sure you'll understand I'm   
    AH> treating these echoes as I would magazines.... :-)   
      
   IMHO, FIDONET looks in the most spectacular way. It twice as heavy than other   
   variants, a real signboard. ;-)   
      
   Bye, Ardith!Alexander Koryagin   
   english_tutor 2022   
      
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