m wrote:
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 02:02:02AM +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 11:31 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>
>> All-caps are harder to read than mixed caps and should be used
>> sparingly. This has been well-known to the printing profession for
>> several hundred years.
>>
> Not to mention school teachers... It's with good reason that we're
> first taught the small letters. And for that reason Sesame Street gets
> a bit of a thumbs down, over here, since it seems to concentrate on the
> capitals.
>
>
If thats the case just say its harder to read and be done, don't pretend its like
screaming and then scream back breaking your own sacred rule.
A quick google of "email etiquette" will reveal that it is a long
held
convention....
http://www.emailreplies.com/
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/636/01/
http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~davidt/email_etiquette.htm
but maybe this one is why some people ignore it....
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA012054101033.aspx :-) :-)
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