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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 19:31:24 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> 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.
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 other people were typing in lowercase at all.
Chris Busse
cbusse@infi.net
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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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