- From: Charles F. Munat <chas@munat.com>
- Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 13:41:44 -0700
- To: "WAI Guidelines WG" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Anne wrote: > And, next time you're surfing, look up Net Etiquette and > save yourself some embarrassment. (Advice from the nearly elderly, ignore > as you please! <grin>) I guess I'm a stubborn person, but I don't do things just because that's the way they're always done. So I have been experimenting with ways to improve the scanability of plain text email (maybe I should have been more up front about this). The use of occasional all-caps text seemed to present an opportunity to make key phrases easier to find without sounding like too much shouting. I wondered if it would work. It appears that it didn't. On to the next attempt. As for embarrassment, I'm not embarrassed by my informal experiment. I am a little embarrassed, of course, at being pilloried: first by being called condescending and tiring, then by being mocked with "Chas mode," and finally (I hope) by being told to learn more about net etiquette. It seems to me that if the intent was simply to get me to abandon my experiment, it could have been done off-list as easily. Perhaps I earned this public scorn, perhaps not. Either way, I guess I'll have to take it like a person. And I will. And it will make me stronger, more determined! And thus emboldened I will go forth and persist in my lonely quest for truth, justice, and the Chas way. Chas. Munat (When I said "Don't take me too seriously," I was serious!)
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