(Meta) A word to the wise -> Don't use all caps in your thread Subject titles.

[Kenny McCormack]

There seem to have been a spate of postings here recently with the word
"announce" in all caps. My kill filters filter these out.

With good reasons:
1) It is considered poor netiquette. All caps is considered to be shouting.
Just don't do it.

2) Spammers do it. That's why I put it in my killfile(s). The recent
spate of "mushroom spam" did this and I found the only reliable way
to get rid of it was to include a catch for 4 or more capital
letters in the thread title.

As I said, just a word to the wise.

[Harald Oehlmann]

Kenny,
thanks !
Unfortunately, this was done the last 25 years here.
It is the word to announce a new package.
But perhaps, a new package is also spam.

Sorry,
Harald

Post by Kenny McCormack
There seem to have been a spate of postings here recently with the word
"announce" in all caps. My kill filters filter these out.
1) It is considered poor netiquette. All caps is considered to be shouting.
Just don't do it.
2) Spammers do it. That's why I put it in my killfile(s). The recent
spate of "mushroom spam" did this and I found the only reliable way
to get rid of it was to include a catch for 4 or more capital
letters in the thread title.
As I said, just a word to the wise.

[Kenny McCormack]

Post by Harald Oehlmann
Kenny,
thanks !
Unfortunately, this was done the last 25 years here.
It is the word to announce a new package.
But perhaps, a new package is also spam.

Well, it looks like whoever is posting these "announce" threads hasn't read
this thread yet. I hope they do.

[Gerald Lester]

Post by Kenny McCormack

Post by Harald Oehlmann
Kenny,
thanks !
Unfortunately, this was done the last 25 years here.
It is the word to announce a new package.
But perhaps, a new package is also spam.

Well, it looks like whoever is posting these "announce" threads hasn't read
this thread yet. I hope they do.

They very likely have -- and are giving it all the consideration it is due.

[Ashok]

+1 to what Harald said in that this has been the practice in c.l.t for
as long as I can remember and never heard this objection before. I
suppose no harm is sticking to "Announce" instead in the future.

However...

Being considered poor netiquette is just misleading. Poor netiquette is
when the entire post or a substantial portion of it is upper case, not a
a single word (or 4 letters in a word!). A subject of "NASA finds life
on moon" is hardly poor netiquette :-).

Post by Kenny McCormack
There seem to have been a spate of postings here recently with the word
"announce" in all caps. My kill filters filter these out.
1) It is considered poor netiquette. All caps is considered to be shouting.
Just don't do it.
2) Spammers do it. That's why I put it in my killfile(s). The recent
spate of "mushroom spam" did this and I found the only reliable way
to get rid of it was to include a catch for 4 or more capital
letters in the thread title.
As I said, just a word to the wise.

[Kevin Walzer]

Post by Kenny McCormack
There seem to have been a spate of postings here recently with the word
"announce" in all caps. My kill filters filter these out.
1) It is considered poor netiquette. All caps is considered to be shouting.
Just don't do it.
2) Spammers do it. That's why I put it in my killfile(s). The recent
spate of "mushroom spam" did this and I found the only reliable way
to get rid of it was to include a catch for 4 or more capital
letters in the thread title.
As I said, just a word to the wise.

If you are missing announcements (a long-standing practice is to preface
these as ANN:), perhaps modifying your killfile might helpl.

[Gerald Lester]

Post by Kevin Walzer

Post by Kenny McCormack
There seem to have been a spate of postings here recently with the word
"announce" in all caps.  My kill filters filter these out.
     1) It is considered poor netiquette.  All caps is considered to
be shouting.
    Just don't do it.
     2) Spammers do it.  That's why I put it in my killfile(s).  The
recent
    spate of "mushroom spam" did this and I found the only reliable way
    to get rid of it was to include a catch for 4 or more capital
    letters in the thread title.
As I said, just a word to the wise.

If you are missing announcements (a long-standing practice is to preface
these as ANN:), perhaps modifying your killfile might helpl.

Hear, hear!

So you are saying a person should not come into a group and expect the
group to alter long standing practice to meet their personal biases?