-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2008-09-07 at 22:00 -0400, Larry Stotler wrote:
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 8:53 PM, Carlos E. R. <> wrote:
You may intend caps as punctuation, but the consensus is that capitalization in email means shouting, and will be interpreted as shouting even if you do not agree. A human language works by majority consensus, you can not change it on your own to your liking.
Sorry Carlos, but I have to disagree. Capitalizing one word creates emphasis. Captializing a sentence would be shouting. Text based email doesn't allow us to easily use underlining and bold. Caps on a single word draws the eyes to that one word, which creates the emphasis. At least, that is my opinion, and having been emailing for almost 20 years through BBS's, FIdoNet, etc, that's what I have always seen. I dunno, is there an official openSUSE word on that? Like not top posting or trying to get people to prune their quotes in consideration of those who are still on dialup?
For instance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiquette#Common_characteristics ] Another rule is to avoid typing in ALL CAPS, which is considered ] shouting or yelling. There is nothing in the opensuse netiquette page. I'm also a Fidonet user, and the consensus about all caps is similar, except when it is clearly for emphasis, like the tittle of a paragraph. You can use _underline_ or *bold*, or /italics/, too. You say that capitalizing a single word is emphasis... perhaps. I don't have that clear, specially when there are many such words in a paragraph. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIxPvgtTMYHG2NR9URAhauAJ43iZ8jKqwO6p36LJ1odl6NoumOLwCdHayu HW6hctLqFWkv5nobCEZs9pU= =c0zS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org