Re: Your company policy with regards to INTERNET sources

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From: Tom Christiansen
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1992 01:15

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From the keyboard of alexb@minerva1.bull.it (Alessandro Bottonelli):
> This is interesting ... it is the second time today I get flamed for
> writing followups in CAPS. Why do people find it comparable to shouting or
> at least find it disturbing ? Any psicologist or analist out there who
> can explain this ?

(You mean "psychologist" or "analyst" -- note the y's in English.)

It's nothing so complicated.  You will find that in this medium, PEOPLE
USE UPPER CASE TO YELL.  They can be used to STRESS something, much in the
way that stars can, like *these*.  Actually, to my ear, upper-case is
LOUDER than mere stars, which are more a *tonal* emphasis than actually
SHOUTING.

Another interpretation is that one is using some ancient, antiquated
operating system that smashes case, or that you're using an all
upper-case teletype, or are similarly impaired.  Here's an applicable
entry from the Jargon File:

    Great Runes: n. Uppercase-only text or display messages.  Some
       archaic operating systems still emit these.  See also {runes},
       {smash case}, {fold case}.

--tom
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    Tom Christiansen      tchrist@convex.com      convex!tchrist

What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind.  Or not to have a mind
at all.  How true that is.  --Dan Quayle

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