Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 08:15:46 11/07/05
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On November 07, 2005 at 11:02:25, Paul Jacobean Sacral wrote:
>On November 07, 2005 at 05:45:11, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>> This was no attack whatsoever. Please have a look at
>> http://www.onlinenetiquette.com/courtesy1.html
>> where you can find the following regarding the
>> subject "Online Netiquette"
>>
>> Below are the online basics you need to minimally
>> become familiar with in order to be taken seriously
>> in your online communications.
>>
>> Do not type in all caps. Typing in all caps is considered
>> yelling or screaming online. Those who type in all caps
>> are perceived as lazy and not being considerate of those
>> who will have to read their e-mail.
>
>You intend text for no appearant reason, and you use hard line breaks. It is
>better NOT to use line breaks at all but just type continuously without pressing
>the return key, because the message board software or the user's browser will
>handle that automatically. For example, your last paragraph looks like this:
>
> Do not type in all caps. Typing in all caps is considered
> yelling or screaming online. Those who type in all caps
> are perceived as lazy and not being considerate of those
> who will have to read their e-mail.
>
>But it should look like this:
>
>Do not type in all caps. Typing in all caps is considered yelling or screaming
>online. Those who type in all caps are perceived as lazy and not being
>considerate of those who will have to read their e-mail.
>
>IMO you cannot teach others how to write in style but at same time, use a
>strange non-standard format yourself :) Thanks...
>
>Yours truly Paul J. Sacral
You may be right but why not do things even better
than the standard format. You will surely have to
agree that my responses to other postings are much
easier to read and to distinguish who has something
written here.
Regards
Kurt
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