> To type in upper case in an email is considered shouting I believe.

Not just email.  As
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/writing-style.html observes,
all-caps tends to get taken as `loud' in almost any context.  (This may
have arisen in hackish usage, but, like many such, it has spread far
beyond its origin.)

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