Roy Stockdill wrote: > JUST this once I'll tell you - Be a good chap and please turn off your caps lock. In netiquette, its known as shouting. We know, from your earlier posting on this issue, that you'd want us to be 'pc' on this list! Regards Richard -- Born in Sheffield, but currently in Nottingham UK. Family names:- ASHFORTH, CAVE, CHAMPION, HODGES, HOPE, JACKSON, NICHOLSON, SIMPSON, SLEE, TETLEY, WALKER, WESTOVER, WOOLLEN, WILLIAMS. Home Website: http://freespace.virgin.net/richard.tetley/

Richard Tetley <richard.tetley@ntlworld.com> wrote..... > Roy Stockdill wrote: > > > JUST this once I'll tell you - > > Be a good chap and please turn off your caps lock. > In netiquette, its known as shouting. > We know, from your earlier posting on this issue, that you'd want us to be 'pc' on this list!> Dear Richard Very amusing, but your comment is hardly relevant to my earlier message on the subject. I pointed out that the sender of a total of six messages had written the whole lot ALL in caps throughout. This is not in any way the same thing as "capping" the initial word of a message. As most people know, I almost always cap the first word of my messages. This is a long-established newspaper tradition and old habits die hard! It is also a modern desktop publishing tradition followed by many people. For instance, the first word in every story that ever appears in the Journal of One-name Studies is always in caps, and if the first word happens to be an "I" then the first two words are capped. It's a long-standing publishing tradition. Roy Stockdill (Editor, Journal of One-Name Studies) SoG Executive & Director of Projects, FFHS Guild of One-Name Studies:- www.one-name.org Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History:- www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html Never ask a man if he comes from Yorkshire. If he does he will tell you, if he does not why humiliate him? - Canon Sydney Smith