From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 14 14:27:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA28334 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 14:27:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from homer.talcom.net ([209.5.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA28327 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 14:27:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leo@homer.talcom.net) Received: (from leo@localhost) by homer.talcom.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) id RAA28465; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 17:28:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19981014172849.37756@talcom.net> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 17:28:49 -0400 From: Leo Papandreou To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Service unavailable to grog@lemis.com or grog@freebie.lemis.com References: <29787.908243895@time.cdrom.com> <199810140125.SAA21924@usr08.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <199810140125.SAA21924@usr08.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 01:25:53AM +0000 X-No-Archive: Yes X-Organization: Not very, no. X-Wife: Forgotten but not gone. Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 01:25:53AM +0000, 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. > > Not that this would have to be upper case instead of lower case... > > 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. > > I'm pretty sure that if you're using "juno", that differential > analysis is the least of your message security worries. 8-). Dont mince words. If someone is predisposed to using all uppercase then its a simple projection of the fact that they've gone through life having people SPEAK TO THEM LOUDLY AND SLOWLY SO THEY CAN UNDERSTAND. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message