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No, it's not a valid reason. You are right. And "whether or not you understand the logic" part is also a good point. Are you really the one who does exactly what some taught you what to do? Quite frankly, I never saw such people. Does not matter, if you prefer not listening for my advice, don't. As I say, I don't mind, as I can easily tolerate it. No need to argue. It's only my curiosity: 1) what do you call "proper use of capitalization", exactly? 2) what is your definition of "proper"? 3) what is the evidence of the correctness of your way of writing? 4) How can you see the who is informed and who is not? If you consider me uninformed, I don't mind. Anyone can eventually be wrong.
Thank you.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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As someone who has worked in IT with large companies since before the internet, I have never heard such an assertion. Neither US (including military) nor European, customers or subsidiaries, used capitalisation in email messages. So I wonder who these schools and branches of the military are actually teaching, since none of them seem to do what they are told.
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If you want to avoid messages being treated as spam, avoid capitalisation. Spam filters often treat all-caps as warning signs of potential spam. You would be better off using sentence casing if you have such an aversion to title case.
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Techsys Admin wrote: when it is still taught in business, accounting and literature classes at good schools
Which one?
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Techsys Admin wrote: It cannot be obsolete when it is still taught in business, accounting and literature classes at good schools as well as all branches of the US military.
Again I would like to see some actual references about that.
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I have to agree with Chris: in forums ALL CAPS is counted as shouting, no matter what you were taught in other media: netiquette - Google Search[^]
People will get annoyed if you misuse the CAPS key online, trust me. And at 58, even I'm old enough to know that! 
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OriginalGriff wrote: And at 58
Pah! Callow youth.
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OriginalGriff wrote: And at 58
He's not shouting, he's merely making the letters big so you can read them.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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You don't need capitals for that!
Ha ha! Griff can't read this bit! I can call him whatever I like here, and he'll never know.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Touché!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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You have made my day... thanks 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Techsys Admin wrote: but many business schools and accounting courses teach that a subject line must be capitalized.
I seriously doubt the 'many' part.
Do you have an example of even one?
Following is from Harvard business review. They suggest an action word, uppercased, followed by more information in regular form.
How to Write Email with Military Precision[^]
Techsys Admin wrote: Please do not infer shouting when you see all caps in the subject line because there are a great number of people like myself who were taught to do it, on purpose,
Err...I have not seen a "great number" in my 30 years of dealing with email. And I used to work for MCI.
MCI Mail - Wikipedia[^]
If anything I have seen the reverse, where people do not capitalize at all.
Other than that I can only note that at least sometimes individuals in the military can make claims that represent personal bias and nothing more. And example of that can be found looking at the history and claims around the devorkian keyboard. So hypothetically someone in the military originated their opinion and rationalized it with non-existent sources and then that opinion made its way to you.
modified 12-Sep-17 11:25am.
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Tried to download an item in an email link pointing to the Research Library and it isn't there.
Item is called "Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud: What's the difference?"
Link is [^]
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I just tried it and it works fine for me.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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The link is not working. I'm using Chrome. Is that not allowed?
I get a big black DOS-style window that says:
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Ticket: (No ticket provided - possibly an error in the error-system)
Error: An error occurred in this page. The error has been recorded and the site administrator informed.
Abort, Retry, Fail?_
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I would send a screenshot but I don't see a way to do that.
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I just tried it for like the 5th time and it worked so perhaps one the servers in the farm has an issue?
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"Do you have a crpytocurrency wallet?"
Should be:
"Do you have a cryptocurrency wallet?"
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modified 4-Sep-17 12:01pm.
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Encrypted for extra security. In python, obviously. 
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
modified 4-Sep-17 12:02pm.
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... and This week's Poll.
modified 4-Sep-17 12:02pm.
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Don'tKnowWhatYouAreTalkingAbout-NothingToSeeHere.MoveAlong,MoveAlong... 
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There seems to be a problem here... 
Regards, Graham
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The article has been deleted. Missing files and missing text. Looks like it was an incomplete article posted prematurely.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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If you start an article, and set the section to "Printing", the "Subsection" dropdown shows a couple of oddities: [^]
No biggie - but they should be removed if possible.
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When I click into a sub group all of the messages always have 'new' besides them.
So for example in 'General Programming'/'Regular Expression' the most recent post was May 7.
I considered answering that post the first time I saw it which was months ago. So I read it then and probably several of the responses (presumably what I didn't comment on it further.)
And I have clicked on it a couple of times since. Every time, far as I can recall, it had the new on it.
But even today it still has the 'new' text besides it (highlighted in yellow.)
Be nice if the 'new' actually meant something.
I am using Firefox although I think I saw the same behavior with Internet Explorer in the past.
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Today it appears that it is now working.
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