On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 20:16:41 -0600, xrongor wrote:
call me silly, but if someone thinks what i have to say carries more weight
because i use more caps or write U.S. every time instead of us (and lets
face it, it wasnt that far of a stretch, JT got it on the first go...) then
that person is likely to think someone else has something more important to
say if they use a nice font.

While I'm the last person to post a grammar, speeling, or punctuation flame,
I must say that it doesn't make your message more likely to convince
anyone if you can't be bothered to at least attempt to get those right.
Hard to tell if the writer is ignorant, or just careless, but either way
it doesn't add anything to the effectiveness.

Before you jump all over me for this, I've more than several times
said the same sort of thing to people I agree with - "You're not helping
our cause with that sort of message" kind of posts.

im not going to change the way ive
posted to bbs and newsgroups for 15 years just for an aura of
respectability.

Your choice, of course. The reader's choice on how to interpret the
lack of whatever, of course.