hi everyone -
a kind person within the DDN community sent me a friendly inquiry
about my sending email in all lower-case. an explanation is owed --
and i'm open to going back to "conventional casing" if that works
better for others.
i adopted the habit of typing in all lower case about 5 years ago
when i was working a job in the arlington public schools. that job
was plenty busy as i was managing 200 computers at 2 elementary
schools, managing the networks at both schools, teaching the teachers
before and after school every day, and taking care of any other
technology need in the 2 buildings, including ordering and installing
all hardware and software.
some journalist friends clued me in to all lower-case emails as a
way to crank thru more emails per day. i find i can type about 25
percent faster without having to slow down for the shift key.
shortly after i was hired i needed to decide whether i'd send
email in all lower-case to my boss, a very formal fellow. i
thought about it for just a minute or two, and decided the job was
hectic enough that i didn't have time for upper-case characters.
after i left 2.5 years later, they hired 2 full-time people to
replace me. i think i made the right decision in my email
style. i would have accomplished about 20 percent less work, as
that job entailed sending a lot of email.
so in some ways i adopted the habit for the benefit of the
children and teachers i was serving at those elementary
schools. i'm willing to entertain going back to "conventional
casing," but i might need to fit less into my day if i did.
- phil
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