On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 18:37:47 GMT, Frogleg > wrote:

>On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 18:02:33 GMT, blake murphy >
>wrote:
>
>>i can't believe how many people want her to alter her methods for
>>their own preferences of readability. as to how she gets her
>>responses, presumably she's got that worked out.
>
>Well, the usual response to an all-caps posting is a polite reminder
>that it's considered rude and looks like shouting. I don't think many
>wanted to *convert* the OP as to question exactly *why* all-caps were
>the only way she (he?) could communicate. We came up with many points
>of discussion and the OP never returned. Has he/she an audible reader
>for newsgroups? (Good golly -- wonder how they translate some
>signatures! Not to mention misspellings.) This *can't* be the first
>time for the poster that the all-caps flag has been raised. "I'm
>handicapped; I can only type in all caps" seems to require
>explication. Now Archie the cockroach could only use lower case for a
>clearly explained reason. I accepted *that* at once. It was a little
>harder to read, but the prose was well worth the effort. :-)

there was a blind participant in an e-mail list i'm on, and, yes, she
had software that would try to render the typewritten words to speech.
i regret to say that not many people did much to accommodate her, but
she held her own.

your pal,
blake