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all caps (was: Re: [zigzag] Re: :zz: Joystix)

To: zigzag@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: all caps (was: Re: [zigzag] Re: :zz: Joystix)
From: "Charles S. Harris" <xchar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 06 Dec 1998 01:16:19 -0400
Organization: Creative Thinking, Middletown NJ 07748-3208
References: <3.0.3.32.19981125030654.008f3100@mail.sfc.keio.ac.jp> <3.0.3.32.19981125030654.008f3100@mail.sfc.keio.ac.jp> <19981126144736.O2566@glasswings.com.au> <3.0.3.32.19981128162709.0102a770@mail.sfc.keio.ac.jp> <19981206020503.C4469@glasswings.com.au> <19981205155842.EJGB12685@[12.79.3.6]> <19981206035641.N4841@glasswings.com.au>
Reply-to: zigzag@xxxxxxxxxx

Andrew Pam wrote, repeatedly:
> 1. Please note that it is considered rude to use all caps on the net.

    True, but BENSHALOM's message is an instance where all caps *do*
serve a legitimate function:  conveying that the writer is (albeit 
in this case unjustifiably) irate.

     --Charles Harris        xchar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
       webmaster, The Nurture Assumption home page:
                  http://home.att.net/~xchar/tna/

References:
- :zz: Joystick Afterthought: Prob w multi windows (Andrew?
  - From: Ted Nelson
- Re: :zz: Joystick Afterthought: Prob w multi windows (Andrew?
  - From: Andrew Pam
- :zz: Joystix
  - From: Ted Nelson
- Re: [zigzag] :zz: Joystix
  - From: Andrew Pam
- Re: [zigzag] Re: [zigzag] :zz: Joystix
  - From: j BENSHALOM
- Re: :zz: Joystix
  - From: Andrew Pam

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