On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Barbara Palmer wrote:

> Please remember that using capitals in email messages is equivalent to
> shouting.  If you would *like* to place a certain _emphasis_ on what you are
> +saying+, there are other ways to do it!!

I realize that a FULL PAGE (that's emphasis, not shouting) of all
capitals can be difficult to read, and therefore annoying, but
just because "someone" decided to call this "shouting" doesn't
necessarily make it so.

Other punctuation tells me other things.  Plus signs, for example,
tell me to add things; underscores are equivalent to italics, etc.

Personally, I prefer the current, more common-sensical, approach of
conveying emphasis by the JUDICIOUS use of capitals.

--Jim Reca