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Re: Announcement of a new I-D

2000-05-09 10:05:03
At 1:37 AM +0900 5/10/00, muraw3c(_at_)attglobal(_dot_)net wrote:

At the ietf-822 mailing list, Keith Moore [1] pointed out that "-" is
already used too heavily by existing media types.  Chris Newman [2]
suggested ~!$^+{}| We picked |

One of the others would have had the advantage that it doesn't look like
another character (e.g., Cap I and/or lower case L in san-serif) in any
common fonts.
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Dave Peterson
SGMLWorks!

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