> 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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