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Subject:RE: A User or An User? From:"McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> To:"Michael West" <WestM -at- conwag -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 28 May 2008 13:42:04 -0400
Michael West had the audacity to say:
[...]
> By the way, there's no reason to capitalise "user" unless it's the
first
> word in a sentence.
In my world (crypto and information security stuff), "User" (along with
"Operator", "Administrator" and others) is a role, and not merely a
grab-bag non-specific collective noun. So I capitalize at least some of
the time.
Kevin
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