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Re: REGARDING A MESSAGE A FEW DAYS AGO.
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:34:40 GMT
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LPIENIAZEK@NOVERA.saynotospamCOM
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Matthew Miller wrote:
> But most importantly, if you want to be a part of the LUGnet community,
> posting in all-caps isn't going to make you any friends. Whether you think
> so or not, it definitely one of two things: either rude, or the behavior of
> a clueless newbie from AOL. I don't think that you want to be either of
> those!
Matt is generally right, including here, and I mostly agree. One thing
to point out, though. And it's tripped me up before, too. Some people
have very good reasons for typing either in all caps or all lower
case... people who, for reasons of disability, don't get to type with
both hands, or even in some cases, with ONE hand. Perhaps they have to
type with a mouth stick, or have to spell out letters with eye blinks or
shout STOP when the scanner gets to the right letter.
This is rare, and John Morgan no doubt is NOT one of those people, but
it's important to remember that sometimes there ARE good reasons for
using all caps.
Just thought I'd point it out.
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 | | Re: REGARDING A MESSAGE A FEW DAYS AGO.
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| (...) I had a similar problem "back in the day" when I was a BBS newbie. I had an Apple ][+ with a 300 baud modem -- my term program (and computer for that matter) only displayed caps. I'd go on BBS's (mostly WWIV PC based) and had no idea that (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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