Re: My Bonney Lies Over the Ocean

Subject: Re: My Bonney Lies Over the Ocean
From: Buck Buchanan <buck -dot- buchanan -at- CITICORP -dot- COM>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 10:24:01 -0700

> >>i have nothing against capital letters, it's just that the internet's
> >>history is rooted in the unix operating system and so, quite often,
> >>character strings are case-sensitive; in order to simplify typing,
> >>especially with a new keyboard, we communciate via e-mail and internet
> >>using lower-case letters as much as possible; only if there is some
> >>real need to use capitalization do use them.
>
> Hhhhmmmmm.


Then why the punctuation. Internet uses periods (dots) for strange
non-punctuation reasons. And both dos and unix get confused with dots.
Thus it would be much better to delete all punctuation.

Oh, well....................dot dot dot dot
--
Buck Buchanan
Software Documentation
Citicorp Technology Center
Westlake, Texas
Speaking for me, not for them!

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