Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ed P Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: Sunday Dinner Feb 2 Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 19:17:03 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 01:17:05 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f7bef55b802fc088670d9acb7be82fa9"; logging-data="2176680"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX187VgibQ0c2kCdaIs3kVU9ysdtwcPMgCmw=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:u12eCts5K2jBP/EJWaXOb/9MCak= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2360 On 2/4/2025 5:44 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote: > On 2025-02-04, Hank Rogers wrote: >> Cindy Hamilton wrote: >>> On 2025-02-04, Jill McQuown wrote: >>>>> >>>> lol okay. I've been on Usenet since the 90's, too; never had a problem >>>> using capital letters. The use of them was drilled into me in typing >>>> class in the 1970's. It also makes things easier to read. >>> >>> I associate it with the use of cell phones, which actually are >>> kind of painful when it comes to capitalization and punctuation. >>> >> >> Newer phones have auto capitalization and it works very well. Only >> rarely do I need to force upper or lower case. > > I've got an iPhone with an up-to-date OS. I'm always having to > re-capitalize stuff. Or un-capitalize it. > If you never had formal training in typing or formatting, the only importance it getting your message to someone on their phone. IDK, seems, FWIW many abbreviations are understood. i do take some shortcuts but I learned to type and have written many business letters over the years so I tend to stay a bit more formal.