From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 1 10:43:39 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id KAA01639 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 1 Feb 1995 10:43:39 -0800 Received: from tuatara.reptiles.org ([142.57.253.134]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA01616 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 1995 10:43:02 -0800 Received: by tuatara.reptiles.org (/\==/\ Smail3.1.28.1 #28.2) id ; Wed, 1 Feb 95 13:43 EST To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Newsgroups: reptiles.freebsd.hackers Path: jim From: jim@reptiles.org (Jim Mercer) Subject: Re: this is silly - really! Message-ID: Organization: Reptilian Research, Toronto, Canada References: <199502011214.EAA05180@freefall.cdrom.com> Distribution: reptiles Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 13:59:30 GMT Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <199502011214.EAA05180@freefall.cdrom.com>, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >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? as i heard Neil Young say in an interview, "It's my style, man." i generally type in lower case, only capitializing when the mood strikes me, or when yelling. this gets me into trouble sometimes, as this style of writing follows me on paper, and my boss has actually sent my memo's back with little circles around the 'i' (as in "i propose ..."). i explained to her that my style was somewhat representative of my personality. all lowercase is relaxed and informal. to me it indicates a certain level of slack, which i try to maintain. >on the other hand, as you can plainly see, it looks kinda stupid. i resemble that remark. -- [ Jim Mercer jim@reptiles.org +1 416 506-0654 ] [ Reptilian Research -- Longer Life through Colder Blood ] [ Never, ever forget to replace the toiletseat after use!!! A wet ] [ chinchilla is a very funny and pathetic sight. -- alt.chinchilla ]