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MHO: When referring to the international entity via which people
communicate via SMTP e-mail, Usenet newsgroups, the WWW, etc., using
systems whose IP network addresses were assigned by the Internet NIC,
capitalize it and precede it with "the." [Or is it the IAB that
assigns addresses? Whatever, you get the picture...]
When referring to a generic collection of interconnected local- and
wide-area networks, don't capitalize.
Example: "XYZ's corporate internet is now connected to the Internet
via a gateway system." [Ok, this is a contrived example. I'd probably
use "corporate network" instead.]
Based on your post, I presume you mean the former, so capitalize it.
kkh
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Kelly K. Hoffman Hewlett-Packard, Network Test Division, Nashua, NH
kelly -at- nashua -dot- hp -dot- com "Reading the manual is admitting defeat."
