my capitalization/punctuation (was: Re: [geeks] Re: Need an

[Eric Dittman]

> > You ought to try using them in a proper manner yourself some time.  
> > You'd be amazed at how people's opinion of you changes if you display 
> > the ability to type properly. :-)
> 
> actually the only time i .. hm. no, actually, i use punctuation and 
> capitalization in a couple circumstances:
> 
> when i am flaming somebody (pretty rare these days)
> when the meaning is ambiguous (its vs it's for example)
> 
> generally i'm pretty pedantic. it just takes so much more effort to use 
> the shift key. it might be easily explained by the fact that the shift 
> key is actually _under_ my hand rather than to the left of it, so i have 
> to _stop_ typing, figure out where the key is, and move to it. the 
> reason for this is the size of my hands (i can span the entire keyboard 
> on my pbg4 with one hand).
> 
> if your opinion of me is based upon the proper capitalization of my 
> posts to this list... well, i deeply apologize, hope i havent caused any 
> damage, and will pay proper restitution to all those whom i have harmed.

I swear, Alex, I didn't put him up to this.
-- 
Eric Dittman
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