Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 19:23:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, needinfo@juno.com, FreeBsD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, grog@allegro.lemis.com Subject: Re: Service unavailable to grog@lemis.com or grog@freebie.lemis.com Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.02A.9810131904460.13907-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> In-Reply-To: <199810140125.SAA21924@usr08.primenet.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > 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 > > > > AN INTERESTING POINT OF VIEW. I DON'T THINK IT WILL CATCH ON THOUGH > > BECAUSE OF THE WASTE OF INK FOR THOSE WHO ALSO PRINT OUT ALL THEIR EMAIL > > IN ORDER TO READ IT. BEST REGARDS AND ALL THAT, > > Actually, for non-native English speakers coming from ideogrammatic > writing forms (Kanji, Hangul, etc.), sticking to one case for all > letters reduces by nearly half the symbol space that must be > memorized in order to be able to read. Those people are more accustomed to large symbol space, and the size of alphabet is unlikely to be one of their worries when they learn English. > Not that this would have to be upper case instead of lower case... If they use any kind of Unix -- definitely not. > A tell-tale question in this regard would be to ask how many > people on this list can "get by" in pidgeon Japanese or Mandarin, > but couldn't read the written form to save their lives. 8-). > > Not that I'm asking this question; it's rhetorical, since I already > know the scale of the slope of the answer. > > I'm sure that using all uppercase for coded documents is to reduce > by the square of the number of characters in the monocase alphabet > the applicability of analysis techniques. Considering the difference in frequency of use of upper and lowercase letters, there probably won't be any noticeable effect. > I'm pretty sure that if you're using "juno", that differential > analysis is the least of your message security worries. 8-). Since one can't be concerned about the security of email sent from juno to mailing list, "least" isn't applicable. -- Alex P.S. There is a discussion about guns in linux-kernel ML... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.LNX.4.02A.9810131904460.13907-100000>