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From: Charles Riggs
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 00:00

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On Fri, 09 Apr 1999 13:19:27 GMT, Matt McLelland <mattpi@flash.net>
wrote:

>Charles Riggs wrote:
>
>> I have two recommendations for you if you wish to get nice responses
>> from Usenet groups: Capitalize your I's for ease of understanding and
>> don't begin a message asking for help, or anything else for that
>> matter, with "Hey" - it's not polite.
>
>As you may have noticed, he got quite a few nice responses.  Captalizing his I's
>might get him a nice response from *you*, but I don't think anyone else cares.
>=)

I have to disagree, strongly. I know many people who very much care
about how the English language is written. Not capitalizing I's is
cute perhaps but it's a corruption of the language - the finest
language on the face of the earth; well, at least it has the largest
vocabulary.

Charles Riggs

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From: riggs@tinet.ie (Charles Riggs)
Subject: Re: Need Urgent Help
Date: 1999/04/10
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