Re: BANANAFISH digest 851

Dan Pfleging (PhishHed@prodigy.net)
Tue, 02 Nov 1999 18:29:29 -0500

> hey hey hey fat alberts...
>     i just want to say sorry about that all caps message, i had no idea it
> meant "screaming." i guess i'm not in with the whole computer- minded
> paranoias, but in my humble opinion it seems a little bit anal retentive/
> obsessive to perceive a type face as someone screaming at you. Maybe it's
> just a paradigm that i am not in, or maybe i'm just not as sensitive when
it
> comes to what the letters on the screen look like-- i mean they're just
> letters...

It's not anal retentive, nor a paranoia (par_annoying_ maybe), big letters
give me a migrane.  Why go through the trouble of putting everything in
caps?  And I'm not really sure paradigm has any use as a word in the last
sentence.
                            Dan
P.S
I don't think it was a personal attack or anything, so don't get offended.
Just a little advice on netiquette.

"Whoever wants supreme freedom must kill himself.
He who cares enough to take his own life is God. "
                                    ­Dostoyevski