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  • (Meta) A word to the wise -> Don't use all caps in your thread Subject

    From Kenny McCormack@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 5 15:09:39 2024
    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 --

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  • From Harald Oehlmann@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 5 16:18:22 2024
    Kenny,
    thanks !
    Unfortunately, this was done the last 25 years here.
    It is the word to announce a new package.
    But perhaps, a new package is also spam.

    Sorry,
    Harald

    Am 05.12.2024 um 16:09 schrieb Kenny McCormack:
    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.


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  • From Kenny McCormack@21:1/5 to wortkarg3@yahoo.com on Fri Dec 6 01:22:03 2024
    In article <visg7u$1ltsf$2@dont-email.me>,
    Harald Oehlmann <wortkarg3@yahoo.com> wrote:
    Kenny,
    thanks !
    Unfortunately, this was done the last 25 years here.
    It is the word to announce a new package.
    But perhaps, a new package is also spam.

    Well, it looks like whoever is posting these "announce" threads hasn't read this thread yet. I hope they do.

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    Many North Koreans believe Kim-il-Sung is an "almighty god" who "created
    the world" in seven days as a divine spirit millions of years ago, and
    came to Earth as a human in 1912 as a messianic figure.

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  • From Ashok@21:1/5 to Kenny McCormack on Sat Dec 7 13:26:58 2024
    +1 to what Harald said in that this has been the practice in c.l.t for
    as long as I can remember and never heard this objection before. I
    suppose no harm is sticking to "Announce" instead in the future.

    However...

    Being considered poor netiquette is just misleading. Poor netiquette is
    when the entire post or a substantial portion of it is upper case, not a
    a single word (or 4 letters in a word!). A subject of "NASA finds life
    on moon" is hardly poor netiquette :-).

    On 12/5/2024 8:39 PM, Kenny McCormack wrote:
    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.


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  • From Kevin Walzer@21:1/5 to Kenny McCormack on Sat Dec 7 21:10:17 2024
    On 12/5/24 10:09 AM, Kenny McCormack wrote:
    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.

    If you are missing announcements (a long-standing practice is to preface
    these as ANN:), perhaps modifying your killfile might helpl.

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