Chat Rooms and Texting

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Hi

This message is directed to some of our members. Please don't write

email to the group in the same style as you would use when you are speed

typing in a chat room or texting a friend from your cell phone.

Please use punctuation, paragraphs, and capital letters in the the

appropriate places. Capitals belong at the start of each sentence.

They belong at the start of your name, the names of other people, and on

the letter I, when you use it to refer to yourself.

Just like using all caps (upper case) is seen as " shouting " -- typing

everything in lower case is seen as " indifference. "

Please do not type plz, u, r, and other shortcuts. Use real words. We

have several blind and nearly blind members, who use software programs

that read their mail aloud to them. Most of the software programs do

not have the capability to sort out texting shortcuts and some

abbreviations. It only takes a nanosecond longer to type months instead

of mos. (A reader program would read that strange abbreviation as moss,

not as months).

When you do not type your posts properly, so that everyone can read

them, the moderators either retype them or reject them. If a person is

really sloppy, without a good reason, we hit the delete key.

Thanks for your consideration.

Lyndi, Moderator

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