13 Apr
2005
13 Apr
'05
12:38 p.m.
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Scott Stevens wrote:
I had a 'filter' on my BBS because one single
user had an annoying habit
of typing in ALL CAPS. And he didn't have an all-caps terminal to use
as an excuse. So one night I dug in and hacked the Pascal code (this
was a WWIV BBS) to not allow any but the first letter in an entered word
to be upper case (it would automatically force all following letters to
lower case until some whitespace occured). Next time Mister All-Caps
logged in he had a fit. What a riot online life was those days...
I too ran a lot of BBSs for a lot of years, and the one thing I
could never understand is, why did sysops ever care about such
things? I agree that ALL CAPS IS LIKE YELLING but so what?