Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!CUNIXD.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU!gmw1 From: gmw1@CUNIXD.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Gabe M Wiener) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Changing Name Registration in Microsoft Products Summary: annoying to look at! Message-ID: <8908182037.AA14781@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu> Date: 18 Aug 89 20:37:43 GMT References: <15075@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <122279@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <13779@netnews.upenn.edu> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: gmw1@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener) Organization: Columbia University Lines: 17 In article <13779@netnews.upenn.edu> rubinoff@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Robert Rubinoff) writes: >Why would anyone care if they spelled their name wrong? All it does is >sit on the screen for a second when the program starts up; it doesn't ever >show up in anything permanent. Because, gentle reader, it would get incredibly annoying to constantly see your name spelled wrong every morning when starting up the program! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-\******/=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Gabe Wiener -- Columbia University \****/ "This 'telephone' has too many \**/ shortcomings to be seriously INTERNET: gmw1@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu \/ considered as a means of BITNET: gmw1@cunixc /\ communication. The device is CI$: 72355.1226@compuserve.com /**\ inherently of no value to us." WUI: 650-117-9118 /****\ - Western Union memo, 1877 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-/******\=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=