On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Tom Young wrote: > but writing messages all in lower case and without proper punctuation in the > style of e.e. cummings' archie the cockroach is an affectation that > expresses how kwel the author is in the modern style of instant > communication how with it they are in communicating with other peeps over > the internet, how busy and multitasking they are 'cause they don't even have > time to hit the shift key or hunt for the period or comma key and i for one > don't like it especially when they are asking for my help In my early BBS days, the newbies who were too lazy to press the shift key tended to engage caps lock and type their messages IN ALL CAPS instead of lowercase. We always gave 'em a hard time about that. Except the Apple ][ users, they had an excuse.
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