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Notes from the SCO conference call

Notes from the SCO conference call

Posted Jun 7, 2003 20:08 UTC (Sat) by tjc (guest, #137)
In reply to: Notes from the SCO conference call by evgeny
Parent article: Notes from the SCO conference call

E.g., if percentage of capital letters exceeds some reasonable limit, or there are more than one exclamation/question mark in a row, the submission would be rejected.

Probably not necessary. MESSAGES LIKE THIS ARE EASY TO IGNORE!!! I just pipe them through my brain and filter them out. :-)

On the other hand, if anyone said anything important with their caps lock on, then I missed it...


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Notes from the SCO conference call

Posted Jun 7, 2003 23:55 UTC (Sat) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]

That's the right attitude... no need for M$ like censorship, "white" or "black" lists.
Nevertherless capitals absorve more space, they only are true offensive in people minds,... at least i have no intention of offending no one,... sometimes happens in more hot matters,... and IMHO people that are more concerned with "aspects" or "image" are not paying attention to the real important issues.

Notes from the SCO conference call

Posted Jun 8, 2003 20:18 UTC (Sun) by evgeny (guest, #774) [Link]

> Probably not necessary. MESSAGES LIKE THIS ARE EASY TO IGNORE!!! I just
> pipe them through my brain and filter them out. :-)

Right, so do I. But just like hitting "Delete" on spam items in one's inbox takes time and is in general irritating, so anti-spam tools are now used everywhere, so...

> On the other hand, if anyone said anything important with their caps lock
> on, then I missed it...

The fact is such messages are hardly have any useful info in them. Just an outburst of author's temper. YMMV, but I'd like to be pointed to an all-caps-on message in the LWN archives that contained a polite and reasonably balanced opinion.

Notes from the SCO conference call

Posted Jun 9, 2003 15:47 UTC (Mon) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link]

The fact is such messages are hardly have any useful info in them.

Either that or they're messages from your boss. ;-)

Oh wait, that's the same category. Never mind...

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