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Subject: Re: Netiquette, off topic (was: Question for ...)

Author: gerold daniels

Date: 16:23:37 11/07/05

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On November 07, 2005 at 11:15:46, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>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

It looks ok to me Kurt. :)

gerold



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