[Boatanchors] The use of upper case letters, a reality check.

Fri Mar 24 03:54:51 EST 2006

Your ranting and raving on about what to do and what not to do is a bit to
long. My post "did you ever" was about boatanchors. Once again you directed
a personnel attack towards me.
Duane, GROW UP.

Gary...
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com>
To: "FRED - W4FJF" <ka2hlw at netzero.net>; <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 1:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] The use of upper case letters, a reality check.

> Re Case Sensitivity. Disengage Caps Lock before shifting!
>
> This has gone far enough, in fact 'too' far! This list is about vintage
> radio equipment, commonly known as Boat Anchors. It is not about our
musings
> of yesteryear and someone's trip down memory lane, AKA "Did You Ever ...?"
> Now there is nothing wrong that I am going to object to as far as now and
> then someone shares his/her memories about a radio adventure, or
> misadventure, with the group. In point of fact, they can be most
enjoyable,
> amusing and even educational. Sometimes a little diversion from the
> prescribed path is good, breaks up the mundane, lessens tensions etc.
> However, too much of anything generally results in a problem of one kind
or
> another.
>
> Sometimes, and this is one of those times, the Boat Anchor road atlas
seems
> to get misplaced and the electronic traffic is not only headed in the
wrong
> direction on a one way street, it is also on the wrong street and in the
> wrong city!  The list is getting too far off the map and we all need to
get
> our focus back on the topic.
>
> This nonsense about typing in upper or lower case is ridiculous. As long
as
> you type in English; the font, color, case, number of characters per line,
> correct spelling, correct grammar, proper punctuation and so forth is not
up
> for debate. At least not on this list, as this is not English Composition
> 101! I realize that some people, and organizations, assign different
> arbitrary meanings to various symbols, use of punctuation marks for
> emphasis, inaudible tone connotations by using a bold font or underlining
> etc. Which is fine. However, on this list, I make the rules! Which are as
> follows:
>
> Just compose as you were taught in elementary school and then polished up
in
> high school with mandatory compositions. Remember those horrible things
> called "book reports" or the dreaded "essay with an outline, rough draft
and
> footnotes?
>
> Now just type your post on the computer's plastic keyboard with keys that
> wiggle, wobble and cause touch typists to babble like a Parrot who wrote
> invisible notes to Big Bird by dipping his beak in Jamaican Rum!
>
> The subscribers on this list are remarkably bright. They can generally
tell
> by the structure and wording of a sentance when the author is shouting,
> cursing profusely, smashing the plastic keyboard with a heavy blunt object
> or leaving excited little puppy puddles on the carpeting from the hiss of
> static emitted by the freshly recapped receiver on her maiden band cruise.
> They do not require words to be typed in solid upper case, tripple
> punctuation marks to signal the end of the line, blinking text in a
> different color than the main text body giving an Atlantic City Marquee
> effect(Or for some of us, a flashback to those days when psychedelic drugs
> allowed us to take a trip without ever leaving home!) or to deduce that
the
> author is unhappy based on the tonal denotation of the message where you
> suggested  he could blow his brains out by blowing  his nose hard! The
> subscribers only have those more dense than Lead moments when they hear
> "Honey did you remember to take out the trash last night for the pick up
> this morning or is there a dead Skunk in the utility room?", "You are not
> going to believe this dad, but a runaway cement mixer truck ran over your
> new Corvette in the McDonalds parking lot and it can now fit between two
> really big sesame seed buns!" or "Dad if your thirteen year old daughter
> made you a grandfather by giving birth to triplets could she get an
increase
> in her allowance?"
>
> Just so you know ahead of time what the penalty is for typing with the
Caps
> Lock engaged, you will be forced to read Robert Orwell's "Precepts For The
> English Language". If you thought the "Red Badge Of Courage" was long,
dull
> and a sure cure for insomnia, Orwell's book could put a stone to sleep!
>
> Duane Fischer, W8DBF
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "FRED - W4FJF" <ka2hlw at netzero.net>
> To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 8:09 PM
> Subject: [Boatanchors] The use of upper case letters, a reality check.
>
>
> > Hi Group,
> >   The use of UPPER CASE letters does not denote SHOUTING! After watching
> > this and other lists, I see that this conception is almost universal
with
> > a few selected individuals. When a ham is asking for a tube and its
> > designation may be 6SK7GTB, is he SHOUTING it into your eyeballs? Or
would
> > you prefer 6sk7gtb? The distinction between upper case letters and lower
> > case letters depends upon whether you were in the military(ie, active or
> > reserve duty) or a baby boomer that never seen a day of military
service.
> > In the Navy, EVERYTHING TRANSMITTED IS IN UPPER CASE LETTERS, or was
until
> > recently. In amateur radio, upper case letters are used to draw your
> > attention to something important, not to SHOUT into your eyeballs. Which
> > would draw your attention more quickly, a part number 1N2006, or 1n2006?
> > I, personally, find this constant bickering about what case a person
uses
> > to be unimportant, and rather childish. As this country is based on free
> > speech, who cares what case they use to pass their info on to others?
> > Also, as you will observe below, my SIGNATURE is all upper case letters
as
> > I am extremely proud of being an Amateur Radio Operator for 25 years,
and
> > an 11 year veteran of the NAVY MARINE CORPS MILITARY AFFILIATE RADIO
> > SYSTEM. For all you hair splitters, I am not going to change the way I
> > display my signature. There is nothing you will be able to say that will
> > change my mind. Anyone who wants to argue the point, please do so off
the
> > list, so the list's bandwidth can be used for other more important
issues.
> > So lets get off this shouting crap, and get into something like helping
a
> > fellow amateur find a part, or get advice on fixing/restoring his
> > classic/antique radio. After all, that is what this list is for, isn't
it?
> >        TNX FM FRED - W4FJF/NNN0QAA REGION FOUR, 73
> > AMATEUR RADIO IS A NATIONAL RESOURCE, NOT "JUST A HOBBY".
NAVMARCORPSMARS
> > MEMBER,"PROUDLY SERVING THOSE WHO SERVE".
> > A FOOL'S PARADISE IS A WISE MAN'S HELL.
> >
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