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