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[Tom Jennings]

On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Scott Stevens wrote:

> I had a 'filter' on my BBS because one single user had an annoying habit
> of typing in ALL CAPS.  And he didn't have an all-caps terminal to use
> as an excuse.  So one night I dug in and hacked the Pascal code (this
> was a WWIV BBS) to not allow any but the first letter in an entered word
> to be upper case (it would automatically force all following letters to
> lower case until some whitespace occured).  Next time Mister All-Caps
> logged in he had a fit.  What a riot online life was those days...

I too ran a lot of BBSs for a lot of years, and the one thing I
could never understand is, why did sysops ever care about such
things? I agree that ALL CAPS IS LIKE YELLING but so what?