Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 16:49:50 +1100 From: Joe Shevland <J_Shevland@TurnAround.com.au> To: Haze <dionn@spiritone.com> Cc: Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Service unavailable to grog@lemis.com or grog@freebie.lemis.com Message-ID: <3622E9FE.CE2C54A7@TurnAround.com.au> References: <19981012.153922.7463.11.needinfo@juno.com> <13858.54124.33219.449851@zuhause.zuhause.mn.org> <3622E5AE.D15CA436@spiritone.com>
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Haze wrote:
>
> On 13-Oct-98 @ 4:18:25, Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org> 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.
> [snipped off]
Useless ideas and conventions of the past? I thought punctuation and
grammar actually added to the written language; in fact I'm sure it
does, because the ALL CAPS above is impossible to understand. Even the
original posting didn't make any sense. THE CAPS ABOVE LOOKS LIKE A
40-COL APPLE IIE; ANYONE THAT ADVOCATES ALL CAPS OVER GRAMMATICALLY
CORRECT ENGLISH SHOULD BE BACK WHERE THEY OBVIOUSLY WANT TO BE: THE DAYS
OF THE SMOKE SIGNAL. Who votes that this thread is stopped, with the
general concensus being that we should type following {educated|human}
conventions?
--
Joe
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