From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!thekid Newsgroups: net.flame Title: the final word on lc Article-I.D.: rlgvax.1119 Posted: Sat Feb 26 16:36:20 1983 Received: Sun Feb 27 02:53:43 1983 THE LAST WORD ON UPPER/LOWER CASE ... since i started all of this, i guess i get to finish it, right?!?! anyway, the votes were counted, and 84.543% of all responses were ... FOR the readability of lower case; however, most of these people were not strongly FOR something nearly as much as they were AGAINST people who: 1) felt they had the right to impose `correct' conventions on my writing style, or 2) would chance missing the religious/orgasmic experience that my writing would certainly inspire just because i MIGHT skip a capital or two... in fact, i received only two letters that actually felt that the all lower case style was easier/faster to read. surveys aside, if even one, poor, malnutritioned, water-them-once-a-week assembly programmer finds `standard' writing styles easier to read, who am i to deny that simple individual the pearls i cast before you swine? it just makes sense that i alter my writing style, after all, it doesn't take me that much longer, (3-5 seconds per submission, 12 submissions per month, 8 months per year, over 1,312 years...). besides i personally don't care all that much (i just found the debate delicious) and from this point on (well, let's say four weeks from now) i plan to restrict ALL submissions to the net to pure New York Times Style Manual. so, you ask, why are you not capitalizing RIGHT NOW??? why aren't you living up to those noble words said so few, short, 7-bit bytes ago??? 'cause i broke my flippin' hand yesterday playing racquetball, that's why, and if any of you capitalization thought police give me any flames about it, or if i get one lousy letter telling me how YOU were able to hit the shift key with your nose, i'm gonna get you, YOU TURKEYS!!! I'M GONNA WRITE YOUR MOTHERS!!! I'M GONNA PUNCH OUT YOUR SISTERS!!!! I'M GONNA GET YOU IF IT TAKES ME FOREVER!!! (as soon as i heal). thekid ...![ mcnc, we13, lime ]!rlgvax!thekid