I agree with your comments about spelling, grammar, etc. Incidentally, 'site' means place; 'sight' is the correct spelling. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Friday, April 06, 2001 4:56 PM Subject: Re: [MO] Caps for stressing In a message dated 04/05/2001 10:05:43 PM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << Yep thats true cept there are alot of people out there that have a hard time reading typing and type in caps so they can read what they wrote...when I get one in caps I assume they have seeing problems and type in caps back so its easier for them to read... >> Well ... here's my nickel's worth. I do see messages (or sentences) typed in all caps as shouting or yelling ... probably because I was fortunate enough to have a good AOL mentor who clued me in to tips like that. As for typing in all caps because of seeing difficulties, my mother is completely blind in one eye and is losing her site in the other eye ... and yet she manages to follow the standard netiquette protocol by increasing her font size and making it bold. She has this preference set up at her end, so that even if I send something with a font size of 10, she receives in her (larger) preset defaults. Whatever happened to standards for letter writing? That's really all e-mail is ... an electronic letter. Are we supposed to excuse people for bad spelling, grammatical errors and basic sentence and paragraph construction just because their message is on the internet? Personally, I want whatever I type in to an e-mail to be easy for the recipient(s) to read and, let's face it ... bad spelling, inappropriate text formatting, poor grammer, and illiterate sentence and paragraph construction do not make me want to read the message ... thank heaven for the good ol' delete key. ==== Missouri Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe from *digest* mode, send a message to [email protected] containing only the word "unsubscribe". ============================== Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 Source for Family History Online. Go to: http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11H B