Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!xmission!nnrp.xmission!.POSTED.shell.xmission.com!not-for-mail From: gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl Subject: (Meta) A word to the wise -> Don't use all caps in your thread Subject titles. Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2024 15:09:39 -0000 (UTC) Organization: The official candy of the new Millennium Message-ID: Injection-Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2024 15:09:39 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.xmission.com; posting-host="shell.xmission.com:166.70.8.4"; logging-data="1401836"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@xmission.com" X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Originator: gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) Bytes: 1410 Lines: 16 There seem to have been a spate of postings here recently with the word "announce" in all caps. My kill filters filter these out. With good reasons: 1) It is considered poor netiquette. All caps is considered to be shouting. Just don't do it. 2) Spammers do it. That's why I put it in my killfile(s). The recent spate of "mushroom spam" did this and I found the only reliable way to get rid of it was to include a catch for 4 or more capital letters in the thread title. As I said, just a word to the wise. -- In politics and in life, ignorance is not a virtue. -- Barack Obama --