From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2006-11-08T11:26:14+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] the name of Matz

On 11/7/06, Josef 'Jupp' Schugt <jupp@gmx.de> wrote:
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> * Byung-Hee HWANG, 11/07/2006 03:26 PM:
> > I saw the full name of Matz, ruby creater, on the web [1]. However, I
> > don't know what is family name in his full name. AFAIK, CIA uses all
> > capital letters for family names because the factbook users are faced
> > with a world of different cultures and naming conventions [2].
> > Therefore, I suggest that the full name of Matz might be mark from
> > "Yukihiro Matsumoto" to "Yukihiro MATSUMOTO" if his family name is
> > "Matsumoto".
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> Talking about conventions one should keep in mind that ruby-talk also
> is comp.lang.ruby. On the Usenet writing words in all uppercase means
> that they are shouted (unless they are acronyms).

MASUMOTO!!!  ;)

By the way, that convention is true across IRC,Instant Messanger, Email, etc.
It's not Usenet specific. (Though i'm not certain, it may indeed have
originated there)