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Technology & Science

Aug. 18, 1999

Once-Urgent All-Caps Messages Are Now Just Annoyances

Once-urgent all-capital messages are now just annoyances By George W. Brewster Jr. My paralegal is relatively soft-spoken in person or on the telephone. But get her behind the wheel of an e-mail machine, and she turns into The Force. As in forceful. As in all capitals all the time.

        By George W. Brewster Jr.
        
        My paralegal is relatively soft-spoken in person or on the telephone. But get her behind the wheel of an e-mail machine, and she turns into The Force. As in forceful. As in all capitals all the time.
        And she isn't the only one. In the past, wh...

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