Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (673 mails)

["Larry Stotler" <larrystotler@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 8:53 PM, Carlos E. R.
<robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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?
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