From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 12 22:51:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA05831 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 22:51:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from WEBBSD1.turnaround.com.au (webbsd1.turnaround.com.au [203.39.138.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA05825 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 22:51:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from J_Shevland@TurnAround.com.au) Received: from TurnAround.com.au (dhcp72.turnaround.com.au [192.168.1.72]) by WEBBSD1.turnaround.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA02506; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 16:54:26 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from J_Shevland@TurnAround.com.au) Message-ID: <3622E9FE.CE2C54A7@TurnAround.com.au> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 16:49:50 +1100 From: Joe Shevland Organization: TurnAround Solutions Pty. Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Haze CC: Bruce Albrecht , 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> <3622E5AE.D15CA436@spiritone.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Haze wrote: > > 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. > [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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message