From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 1 05:05:58 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id FAA07217 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 1 Feb 1995 05:05:58 -0800 Received: from lupine.nsi.nasa.gov (lupine.nsi.nasa.gov [198.116.2.100]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA07205; Wed, 1 Feb 1995 05:05:49 -0800 Received: (from mnewell@localhost) by lupine.nsi.nasa.gov (8.6.9/8.6.9) id IAA06207; Wed, 1 Feb 1995 08:04:35 -0500 Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 08:04:30 -0500 (EST) From: "Michael C. Newell" To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: this is silly - really! In-Reply-To: <199502011214.EAA05180@freefall.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk all lower case isn't a problem from my perspective; I DO REALLY HATE IT THOUGH WHEN PEOPLE SEND MESSAGES IN ALL UPPER CASE. (shudder) No mercy should be shown to upper-case weenies; most are probably ex-mainframers that are trying to find real careers anyway... I learned to touch-type in high school, so mixing case is really easy for me... Mike On Wed, 1 Feb 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 04:14:09 -0800 > From: Jordan K. Hubbard > To: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com > Subject: this is silly - really! > > ok, just a quick straw poll. how many people out there _really object_ > when somebody sends them something in all lower-case, too lazy to even > capitalize after punctuation? this used to sort of bother me until finally > the light dawned yesterday and i understood - it's a lot *faster* to > type when you ignore case! gee! revelation! :-) now it's no coincidence > that all my very busiest friends all started doing this around the > same time! :-) > > on the other hand, as you can plainly see, it looks kinda stupid. > > it is certainly much faster to type, and you run into less run-on mistakes > where you get two letters cap'd and then you have to go back and muck it all > up for awhile until finally you can go on to the next word. bah. > > so what's the concensus? go for fast but ugly or slower but more > elegant? :-) > > jordan > > Thanks, Mike +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ |Mike Newell | The opinions expressed herein are | |NASA Science Internet Network Systems | my own, and do not necessarily | |Sterling Software, Inc. | reflect those of the NSI program, | |MNewell@nsipo.nasa.gov | Sterling Software, NASA, or anyone | |+1-202-434-8954 | else. | +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+