Cob: Shouting

[Howard]

Yes, sometimes it is intentional.  I often will use caps to apply emphasis to a
word or phrase because it is clearer than italics, which seems to de-emphasize
it seems to me.  I think shouting comes more with the tone of the post coupled
with caps and generally for the whole sentence or paragraph.  We here should be
able to tell the difference, all being a pretty gentle bunch I presume. My
favorite quote for what we are all considering is the one from an anonymous
Shoshone,

"Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having
neither to weigh
thought nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are,
chaff and grain
together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is
worth keeping, and with a
breath of kindness, blow the rest away."

howard


"SANCO Enterprises, LLC" wrote:

> Shannon,
>
> Sometimes SHOUTING is intentional.
> SANCO Enterprises, LLC
> Paul Salas, General Manager
> P.O. Box 45741
> Rio Rancho, NM  87174
> (505)  238-1485
> chansey at earthlink.net
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shannon C. Dealy" <dealy at deatech.com>
> To: "Ocean" <ocean at peacemaking.org>
> Cc: "Desert rivers -" <rivers77 at hotmail.com>; <coblist at deatech.com>
> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 11:22 AM
> Subject: Re: Cob: ARE OUR NATURAL BUILDING IDEAS CAST IN STONE??? (or, the
> STONEvs. cast earth controversy continues)
>
> > On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Ocean wrote:
> >
> > > Desert Rivers,
> > >
> > > Thanks for your positive interpretation, in fact I wasn't yelling, only
> > > TYPING IN CAPS...
> > [snip]
> >
> > Unfortunately, when people join the internet they aren't given a handbook
> > of all the conventions, protocols, common symbols, etc. that are used in
> > communicating on the internet.  It happens that this is one of them, the
> > convention (which dates back at least 15 years that I am personally aware
> > of), is that typing any block of text in all capital letters is
> > "shouting".  Of course it helps to give people the benefit of the doubt
> > and email them privately about issues like this.  I am posting this to the
> > list, because I have noticed that there are others who are also unaware of
> > this convention.
> >
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> >
> >