On Tue, September 18, 2018 03:52, Ralf Quint wrote: > On 9/17/2018 3:42 PM, Tomas Hajny wrote: >> P.S.: As probably well-known, especially to people using Internet as >> long as some of our subscribers, writing words in uppercase is considered >> as an equivalent of shouting and thus not very polite. Please, stick to >> polite communication on this list (and preferably elsewhere too ;-) ). > And people that really use the Internet for a long time, should also > know that capitalizing _single words_ means to put an *emphasize* on > them (as "back in the good old days" there was just plain text emails, > with no option for underline, italic or bold), rather than shouting. > Shouting is considered when the whole sentence/message is written in all > caps... ;-)
While I understand that netiquette rules may have slight variations, e.g. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855 doesn't have any kind of distinction between using capital letters for single words or whole sentences and suggests different approach for emphasizing. My 26 old experience suggests the same. In any case, any potential responses to this message should be sent to fpc-other (or me personally) rather than to this list, because this topic is not on topic here. Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
