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I suppose that I shall have to write an article for the journal entitled "Code 4 dealing gracefully with idiotic journal names". Our software has exception code for "THE Journal", but it still is a problem. At 7:50 PM -0700 5/3/06, Roy Tennant wrote: >Eric, >Surely you must realize it was a vote. Once it was put to a vote, >under specific rules, if the rules are followed (and they were as far >as I know), then we're stuck with it, for good or evil. >Unfortunately, I think poor Jeff Davis was quite against that choice. >Roy > >On May 3, 2006, at 7:27 PM, Eric Hellman wrote: > >>>Here's the latest on the code4lib journal: >>> >>>"/lib/dev: A Journal for Library Programmers" won the journal name >>>vote. (See http://www.code4lib.org/node/96 for more details.) >> >>The idea of a journal name that contains punctuation in the title is >>so breathtakingly idiotic that I can only assume that it is a >>reference to the bug in the name of the computer language C++ -- Eric Hellman, Director OCLC Openly Informatics Division [log in to unmask] 2 Broad St., Suite 208 tel 1-973-509-7800 fax 1-734-468-6216 Bloomfield, NJ 07003 http://www.openly.com/1cate/ 1 Click Access To Everything