From: utzoo!decvax!cca!ima!johnl
Newsgroups: net.flame
Title: Re: small is better - (nf)
Article-I.D.: ima.295
Posted: Fri Feb 25 03:23:17 1983
Received: Fri Feb 25 08:47:06 1983

#R:rlgvax:-107300:ima:14600002:000:864
ima!johnl    Feb 24 10:22:00 1983

	finally, i use all lower-case when i type for a very practical
	reason ...  IT IS FASTER!  my typing tends not to linger as far
	behind my thinking, so i can communicate ideas/feelings more
	effectively.

I'm certainly glad to hear that our writer is saving three seconds per
message at the slight cost of giving the thousands of us out here who try
to read it eyestrain.

More to the point, it's silly to claim that shortening the time between
brain and print improves communication.  At that rate, stream of
consciousness tapes (or perhaps recordings of brainwaves) would be
lucid and fascinating and Moby Dick would be content-free.  Uh huh.

Perhaps we need net./dev/null for writers who write for their own sake
rather than to amuse, inform, persuade, or enlighten their readers.

John Levine, decvax!yale-co!jrl, ucbvax!cbosgd!ima!johnl, research!ima!johnl