There seem to have been a spate of postings here recently with the word
"announce" in all caps. My kill filters filter these out.

With good reasons:
1) It is considered poor netiquette. All caps is considered to be shouting.
Just don't do it.

2) Spammers do it. That's why I put it in my killfile(s). The recent
spate of "mushroom spam" did this and I found the only reliable way
to get rid of it was to include a catch for 4 or more capital
letters in the thread title.

As I said, just a word to the wise.

--
In politics and in life, ignorance is not a virtue.
-- Barack Obama --

Kenny,
thanks !
Unfortunately, this was done the last 25 years here.
It is the word to announce a new package.
But perhaps, a new package is also spam.

Sorry,
Harald

Am 05.12.2024 um 16:09 schrieb Kenny McCormack:
> There seem to have been a spate of postings here recently with the word
> "announce" in all caps. My kill filters filter these out.
>
> With good reasons:
> 1) It is considered poor netiquette. All caps is considered to be shouting.
> Just don't do it.
>
> 2) Spammers do it. That's why I put it in my killfile(s). The recent
> spate of "mushroom spam" did this and I found the only reliable way
> to get rid of it was to include a catch for 4 or more capital
> letters in the thread title.
>
> As I said, just a word to the wise.
>

In article <visg7u$1ltsf$2@dont-email.me>,
Harald Oehlmann <wortkarg3@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Kenny,
>thanks !
>Unfortunately, this was done the last 25 years here.
>It is the word to announce a new package.
>But perhaps, a new package is also spam.

Well, it looks like whoever is posting these "announce" threads hasn't read
this thread yet. I hope they do.

--
Many North Koreans believe Kim-il-Sung is an "almighty god" who "created
the world" in seven days as a divine spirit millions of years ago, and
came to Earth as a human in 1912 as a messianic figure.

+1 to what Harald said in that this has been the practice in c.l.t for
as long as I can remember and never heard this objection before. I
suppose no harm is sticking to "Announce" instead in the future.

However...

Being considered poor netiquette is just misleading. Poor netiquette is
when the entire post or a substantial portion of it is upper case, not a
a single word (or 4 letters in a word!). A subject of "NASA finds life
on moon" is hardly poor netiquette :-).

On 12/5/2024 8:39 PM, Kenny McCormack wrote:
> There seem to have been a spate of postings here recently with the word
> "announce" in all caps. My kill filters filter these out.
>
> With good reasons:
> 1) It is considered poor netiquette. All caps is considered to be shouting.
> Just don't do it.
>
> 2) Spammers do it. That's why I put it in my killfile(s). The recent
> spate of "mushroom spam" did this and I found the only reliable way
> to get rid of it was to include a catch for 4 or more capital
> letters in the thread title.
>
> As I said, just a word to the wise.
>

On 12/5/24 10:09 AM, Kenny McCormack wrote:
> There seem to have been a spate of postings here recently with the word
> "announce" in all caps. My kill filters filter these out.
>
> With good reasons:
> 1) It is considered poor netiquette. All caps is considered to be shouting.
> Just don't do it.
>
> 2) Spammers do it. That's why I put it in my killfile(s). The recent
> spate of "mushroom spam" did this and I found the only reliable way
> to get rid of it was to include a catch for 4 or more capital
> letters in the thread title.
>
> As I said, just a word to the wise.
>
If you are missing announcements (a long-standing practice is to preface
these as ANN:), perhaps modifying your killfile might helpl.

On 12/7/24 20:10, Kevin Walzer wrote:
> On 12/5/24 10:09 AM, Kenny McCormack wrote:
>> There seem to have been a spate of postings here recently with the word
>> "announce" in all caps.  My kill filters filter these out.
>>
>> With good reasons:
>>      1) It is considered poor netiquette.  All caps is considered to
>> be shouting.
>>     Just don't do it.
>>
>>      2) Spammers do it.  That's why I put it in my killfile(s).  The
>> recent
>>     spate of "mushroom spam" did this and I found the only reliable way
>>     to get rid of it was to include a catch for 4 or more capital
>>     letters in the thread title.
>>
>> As I said, just a word to the wise.
>>
> If you are missing announcements (a long-standing practice is to preface
> these as ANN:), perhaps modifying your killfile might helpl.

Hear, hear!

So you are saying a person should not come into a group and expect the
group to alter long standing practice to meet their personal biases?

On 12/5/24 19:22, Kenny McCormack wrote:
> In article <visg7u$1ltsf$2@dont-email.me>,
> Harald Oehlmann <wortkarg3@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Kenny,
>> thanks !
>> Unfortunately, this was done the last 25 years here.
>> It is the word to announce a new package.
>> But perhaps, a new package is also spam.
>
> Well, it looks like whoever is posting these "announce" threads hasn't read
> this thread yet. I hope they do.

They very likely have -- and are giving it all the consideration it is due.