bobr@tekgds.UUCP (08/28/83)
I have noticed this phenomenon, too, but I think it comes more as an easy way to avoid ambiquity, regardless of computers. For example, there is a person in our building whose name sounds very much like some one else, who used to be frequently paged over the intercom. To avoid confusion, his name went from Gene Paul to BG Paul to BGP (pronounced either bee gee pee or simply bujup). Within our own organization, we have a robertc, bobr and bobl. The latter two have been referred to as bober and bobel, but the former has never to my knowledge been referred to as either robertic, robertsee or roberts. One of our upper level managers named joe has a last name that begins with Y. I have no intention, nor does anyone else I know, of referring to him when he gets an account as joey. Robert Reed, Tektronix LDS, tektronix!tekgds!bobr