Model Forum / General / Railroads / September 2008

I was not refering to the post about the model gas station. I was
refering to the two  pornagraphic posts that were pposted just befor
me.. I thought everyone saw the same screen. Now as far as what you
call shouting is concerned I do have a vision problem and I cannot see
mistakes when I am typoing. when I am out of the google groups I use
CAPS all of the time. There are  no absolute rules that say that
capital letters are shouting. how absurd!

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If you re-read my post I was trying to ASSIST you in arranging for you not
to use caps which, all over the 'net, indicates shouting, whether you think
it's absurd or not.

That's the convention.  Deal with it!

So, re-read my post, follow the instructions, and hopefully you will be able
to read posts without using caps and drawing fire for shouting.

I also have poor eyesight and do not need to resort to caps except, as in
this post, to get the point across.

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Cheers
Roger T.
See the GER at: -
http://www.islandnet.com/~rogertra/

Just so. Thare are also no absolute rules that say you can't stroll
into a biker bar and yell "f.ck HARLEY DAVIDSON!" at the top of your
lungs, but polite people don't do it. Neither do those with an eye
towards the future. (Having one in excess of 30 seconds, that is.)

Seen from outside their social framework, systems of manners always
are. But they prevent friction anyway, and that's their purpose.

Attention isn't always good. See "biker bar", above.

Hard for you to understand, I know, but the other folks on Usenet are
perfectly capable of making decisions such as that without your input,
and there are probably some few who were drawn to said pornography (?)
just because you pointed it out in your post. Tsk.

~Pete

Nope.

If you have vision problems, use a larger display font on your monitor. I'm
surprised you don't find caps *harder* to read than conventional text, as
all letters are the same size and harder to differentiate.
Use caps all the time here or elsewhere on the net and you will find
yourself getting ignored pretty quickly as a nutter who simply wants to
shout his own opinion.

On 9/26/2008 3:36 PM NICHE541 spake thus:

Now this is what we here on r.m.r. call a "teaching moment". So if you
don't mind, let me enlighten you a little bit about how this stuff works.

Now we can all see that you're reading and posting to this group through
Google Groups. And like many other folks who use that "service", you
seem to think that this is some kind of ... Google group. But it's not.

What Google has done is to wrap their web-based interface around Usenet
newsgroups. Usenet is far older than the web; it goes back to the days
of acoustic modems, text-only terminals, DARPAnet, and a whole bunch of
other stuff you probably don't know or care about.

Anyhow, most of us actually read this newsgroup through newsreaders
(basically email programs that also read Usenet newsgroups). So no, we
don't all "see the same screen". Each of us has our own ISP (Internet
service provider) which maintains their own Usenet server (actually
NNTP, but let's not get bogged down in details). Each "view" of this
newsgroup is different.

So hopefully that has enlightened you a little bit.

Next time we'll talk about how Google has massively f.cked up their
"portal" to Usenet, and how that has had negative impacts on newsgroups.

As written, here by me there is nothing. Ditch google groups and use
something serious.

So you are shouting at averyone ?

Hold down shift at your keyboard and scroll up on your mouse, then
everything gets bigger and is more easy to read - insteaf of souting and
beeing rude.

Yes, just like a troll....

Klaus

  You are correct in that there are no *absolute rules* that say
capital letters are shouting.

  However, since you use Google to access usenet groups, try also using
Google to search for "nettiquete".  You will find that although there
are no rules about caps, it is indeed a *well known* and *well followed*
convention.

  You will also find that the convention for emphasis is to use
*asterisks*, as I am doing here.

  Not really.  Although there are no "absolute rules" against shouting
your entire oral conversation at someone, doing so would be considered
rude.  It's no different online.

  Yes, but certainly not in a useful, friendly, or constructive way.
Basically, you've shouted at us that you're a bore and should probably
be ignored.

  Thanks, but we're capable of figuring that out ourselves.

Stevert