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

On 8/10/24 7:08 PM, James Knott via talk wrote:

On 8/10/24 19:02, Peter King via talk wrote:

Thoughts? Experiences with gmail?

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?

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!