Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 16:31:16 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Service unavailable to grog@lemis.com or grog@freebie.lemis.com Message-ID: <19981013163116.24587@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <13858.54124.33219.449851@zuhause.zuhause.mn.org>; from Bruce Albrecht on Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 11:18:25PM -0500 References: <19981012.153922.7463.11.needinfo@juno.com> <13858.54124.33219.449851@zuhause.zuhause.mn.org>
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On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 11:18:25PM -0500, Bruce Albrecht woke me up to tell me: > ed mill writes: > > WE PREFER ALL CAPS IT LOOKS BETTER AND AS MORE PEOPLE THE USE THIS METHOD > > OF COMMUNICATION, THE USELESS IDEAS AND CONVENTIONS OF THE PAST WILL FALL > > BE THE WAY SIDE. LIKE THE USE OF ALL CAPS IN THE CASE AND THE > > TELEGRAPH, SMOKE SIGNALS, AND THE DRUM LEAD OTHER CASES.WE PREFER ALL > > CAPS IT LOOKS BETTER AND AS MORE PEOPLE THE USE THIS METHOD OF > > COMMUNICATION, THE USELESS IDEAS AND CONVENTIONS OF THE PAST WILL FALL BE > > THE WAY SIDE. LIKE THE USE OF ALL CAPS IN THE CASE AND THE TELEGRAPH, > > SMOKE SIGNALS, AND THE DRUM LEAD OTHER CASES. > > I thought the "ALL CAPS" look departed with the demise of the Teletype > model 33 and all those old line printers. It must be another one of > those "return to the 70's" styles. I didn't much like bell-bottoms, > and I don't like "ALL CAPS", either. Not to mention, I'm not clear on exactly how telegraph and smoke signals used caps. Is *- capital or lowercase? Hmm... thast time I used all caps was... When I wrote an IBM BASICA program to calculate the Fibonacci sequence... *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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