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Re: USAGE: (No) Capitals in "I", "you" and one's e-mail signature
Subject:Re: USAGE: (No) Capitals in "I", "you" and one's e-mail signature From:Denise Fritch <dfritch -at- INTELLICORP -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 6 Oct 1998 11:44:20 -0700
Rita,
> 1) Why does someone use "i" (meaning me) instead of "I" (in e-mail,
> namely)?
> 3) Why does someone manually sign the e-mail by his/her name without
> (any) capitals?
Well, you have received several interesting comments to this question.
However, I suspect the "people use email for fast and dirty communication"
responses are way off. If you check the original writer's email, you will
find the writer DID include one set of capitalized words:
". . . and my Microsoft Help Workshop crashes."
Perhaps the original writer would comment about the lack of personal
capitalization?
