Re: ** Fork 1, Draft Final-2 **

Kyle R. Rose (krose@theory.lcs.mit.edu)
Mon, 25 Jan 1999 16:55:41 -0500

> The acronym goes in parentheses at FIRST USE. Thereafter you can use
> the acronym instead of the long stuff. If you're not going to use the

> acronym again, you have no excuse for introducing it.
>
> Unless, that is, the acronym is better known than the long form! That
can
> happen. DNA, for example. If you truly think so, just use the acronym.

Well, there are two differing opinions on this. I've had people say to
do it both
ways, so I'll just keep it the way it is for now, unless I find a
convincing argument
to change. Since it only appears once, I think having WAN in
parenthesis looks
better. Just IMO.

Kyle

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