From: utzoo!decvax!yale-com!brunix!gh Newsgroups: net.flame Title: all lower case Article-I.D.: brunix.1611 Posted: Sat Feb 19 16:37:07 1983 Received: Sun Feb 20 07:03:10 1983 Obviously, an all-lower-case message is not incomprehensible, but is nevertheless a little harder. A skilled reader uses cues like word-shape, punctuation and case. The more skilled the reader, the more flouting such conventions will slow them down. People who move their lips when they read, such as rlgvax!thekid, probably don't worry about case at all. Poetry has its own rules and speed; e.e. cummings can be the basis for no argument about capitalization in normal text.