[GTALUG] Old and New Habits...

[o1bigtenor]

On Sat, Aug 10, 2024 at 8:51 PM Peter King via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> On 8/10/24 7:08 PM, James Knott via talk wrote:
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> On 8/10/24 19:02, Peter King via talk wrote:
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> Thoughts? Experiences with gmail?
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> I don't recall email addresses ever being case sensitive and my experience
> goes back to a VAX 11/780 in the mid 80s.  I agree with your daughter,
> making it case sensitive would be a bad idea.  Is there an RFC that says
> otherwise?
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> Don't know about a canonical RFC.  I could live without case sensitivity,
> but punctuation?
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I'm a thinking that poor use of case and a dearth of punctuation are
actually small potatoes to what is
happening out there in the wild. What I am seeing is that text has almost
become discarded in favor of,
wait - - - you'll love this - - - video. It is just so much easier to
disseminate ideas if one can babble in
from of some kind of video taking device than to actually write things.

Agreed - - - poor or bad punctuation makes for difficult reading, lack of
capitalization also doesn't help
much but when I'm supposed to spend an hour of my time watching something
that I could have read
through in likely under 5 minutes - - - they're a waste of my time. (And
that's not getting into the severe
dearth of understanding of information that has been acquired in the past -
- - we MUST repeat research
at least every generation!! (NO!!!!!!) Its so research institutions remove
access to research within 3 years
of completion - - - because its 'old' - - - - ARGH!!

end rant!
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