Peter King via talk wrote on 2024-08-10 16:02:
The discussion was inconclusive, to say the least, and I thought (and think!) that we should respect case and punctuation.
Generally, I agree. Just today I subscribed to a podcast by someone who's podcast work I quite like, only to see that absolutely no capitalization is used on episode titles, even for proper nouns like "Boston". FFS, I just might unsubscribe. I hate this trend where it's "cool" to eschew capitalization, or even worse, to skip it at sentence beginnings, but use it in, say, "CPU". WTF? It's worse than the old-timers writing all-caps back in the early '90s ("Stop shouting!")
But I certainly hadn't considered the arguments against it...
When it comes to email, it'd be a huge flaw to allow me to sign up as PeterKing@gmail.com when you've already got peterking@gmail.com Email addresses are, as I understand it, folded to lower-case for handling and that makes sense.
Thoughts? Experiences with gmail? Reflections on generational differences in the approach to computing?
I've already ranted about lower-case everything, I'd best refrain from starting on about emoji, "LOL" as punctuation, etc. -- those aren't even generational. If anything, they're more popular amongst the oldsters. rb