Re: News

[David Lawrence] "This is a statement of absolute fact. A new visitor looking to this forum for information, not knowing where you're coming from could easily read it that way. If you've talked to the engineers and they've told you this, awesome, please say more. If not, then I think you should expect some push back when you make this kind of argument.

Also, you do know it's common netiquette that anything in all caps IS CONSIDERED YELLING, right?

Just say'in ;)
"

Yeah, and push back is fair. I can handle that.

As to the caps thing, I struggle with that. In all my years of writing, I had access to quotes, italics, bolds and underscores. As I migrated to newsgroup posts, those kind of conditional markings all too often ended up looking like: "what I <%said%> meant no offense... so I kinda devolved into using caps as a reliable emphasis tool. I know that in strict "texting" circles it's considered yelling, and I try not to do it, but I find myself in mid thought and feel the need to EMPHASIZE a word for meaning and I'm too stuck in my traditional keyboarding ways to catch myself FAR too often.

(It was easier for the decade I wrote on deadline for the magazine, since there was a copy editor between me and my readers to make sure I didn't screw up like that. I miss the convenience!)

I apologize for any impression of impoliteness that it communicates. That's never my intent. And I'll try harder to remember it in the future.

"Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions."-Justice O'Connor