From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 12 22:32:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA03992 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 22:32:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ridge.spiritone.com (ridge.spiritone.com [205.139.108.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA03987 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 22:32:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dionn@spiritone.com) Received: from spiritone.com (us4a-18.spiritone.com [206.98.120.18]) by ridge.spiritone.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA26643; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 22:31:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3622E5AE.D15CA436@spiritone.com> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 22:31:26 -0700 From: Haze Organization: Organized? Me? Ha! X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bruce Albrecht CC: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Service unavailable to grog@lemis.com or grog@freebie.lemis.com References: <19981012.153922.7463.11.needinfo@juno.com> <13858.54124.33219.449851@zuhause.zuhause.mn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 13-Oct-98 @ 4:18:25, Bruce Albrecht wrote: > ed mill writes: > > WE PREFER ALL CAPS IT LOOKS BETTER AND AS MORE PEOPLE THE USE THIS METHOD > > OF COMMUNICATION, THE USELESS IDEAS AND CONVENTIONS OF THE PAST WILL FALL > > BE THE WAY SIDE. LIKE THE USE OF ALL CAPS IN THE CASE AND THE > > TELEGRAPH, SMOKE SIGNALS, AND THE DRUM LEAD OTHER CASES.WE PREFER ALL > > CAPS IT LOOKS BETTER AND AS MORE PEOPLE THE USE THIS METHOD OF > > COMMUNICATION, THE USELESS IDEAS AND CONVENTIONS OF THE PAST WILL FALL BE > > THE WAY SIDE. LIKE THE USE OF ALL CAPS IN THE CASE AND THE TELEGRAPH, > > SMOKE SIGNALS, AND THE DRUM LEAD OTHER CASES. > > I thought the "ALL CAPS" look departed with the demise of the Teletype > model 33 and all those old line printers. It must be another one of > those "return to the 70's" styles. I didn't much like bell-bottoms, > and I don't like "ALL CAPS", either. The US govt. still uses all caps in most of the US Code documents. They've also been consistently failing Y2k tests. It doesn't surprise me, though. How can we expect them to comply with a current tech issue when they haven't even upgraded to a two-case alphabet yet? :-) -- Knowledge is the perception of truth distorted by reality PGP Key: www.spiritone.com/~dionn/pgpkey Fingerprint: 312E F076 35D0 8EEB 4B2A DC8A 04FC 1543 3B2C 0502 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message