Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I completely agree with you Roger. I abhor posts that are all lower case and that have grossly misspelled words. Most Email programs have a built-in spell checker. So how much trouble is it to actually carry on what could be considered a civil conversation by using correct writing etiquette (cap's and punctuation) and spelling, rather than appearing lazy and blasé about it. I simply skip badly written posts. And many folks don't even look to see where their response is going. Quite often it is stuck on to the last sentence of the original post and without some detective work, impossible to extract. And, many folks will re-send the entire original post, perhaps the original plus numerous responses, and then tack their response to the very bottom, which can be numerous pages down. For all of the above, I simply push delete. If a person doesn't care how their post is written and presented, then they obviously don't care if it is read. Jim ps... For those with English as a second or third language, is it of course OK to do the best you can when posting a message or response. Those of us with English as a first language can immediately pick up on this fact and of course understand. Those of you out there with English as a first language should do your best to use proper English, spelling, punctuation, and sentence structure. It can be very difficult for "English as a second language" people to understand crappy English coming from folks who know better. At 04:38 PM 10/15/00 -0700, Roger Beamon wrote: >Email done in all lower case jars me! > >I understand that it is accepted form for for much office and >inter office correspondence. It, doubtless, makes for faster >typing for a touch typist, but, criminy, this is personal >correspondence with an extremely diverse group of people. > >Am I being a crank to ask that the practitioners slow up by 10% >and make their posts more and properly readable to us in the >third world? > >-- >Roger, List-Owner >The LEG (Leica Enthusiasts Mailing List) >http://www.topica.com/lists/leica >