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BS. Nobody's correcting anything that's in the gray zone. Why do we "go out of our way" to correct abominable grammar, spelling, or the latest "Caps-don't-mean-shit-to-me-so-why-bother" attitude? Because it's like fingernails on a chalk board. Because I write technical documentation for a living and I know that, no matter what the lazy writer or correspondent wants to believe, it *does* matter. If nothing else, it makes the writer appear sloppy and uneducated. To the literate reader, even a minor mistake in spelling or punctuation causes a stop and check, costing time and irritation. For a person whose first language is not English, and there are many on this list, your claim that "the target audience knows exactly what your[0] talking about" is not a reasonable assumption at all. It's only your familiarity with idiom and correct usage that allows you to translate the mistakes easily. Mostly, to me, it's insulting. I go to some trouble to make sure that my writing and my correspondence are correctly proofed and sensible. I sort of expect the same behavior, especially in a group of ostensibly intelligent and educated technicians. A total absence, or random misuse, of capitals and punctuation not only negates any credibility the writer or poster might have had, and the post takes much, much longer to parse. I usually don't bother to try to read that sort of spew at all. Mostly I go to the trouble to correct consistent bad grammar or spelling because much of what I know I learned when somebody told me "Hey, did you know you're screwing that up?" If I can't take reasonable correction and learn from it, that pretty much defines me as an idiot. Doc, putting away the soapbox [0] Took all I had not to misquote that.