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To: RocketMan who wrote (240)	10/30/2001 7:07:36 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 827

On the other hand, the use of lower case capital letters is also unusual. This hints at a foreigner, someone who didn't have time to learn our lower case alphabet. I've heard this point a number of times. FWIW, I use all caps and so does my father. I got in the habit when I was a computer programmer back in the days when one wrote the program on a coding sheet and sent it to be keypunched. And I just kept writing that way. On a coding sheet, all the letters were the same size, of course, but elsewhere I used both large and small caps. I asked my father how he came to write that way. He said he just likes the clean and simple look. English was not the first language that he spoke, but he first learned to read and write in English and practiced penmanship from first grade on those blue lined pads just like every other native born American. I'm not sure how much can be made of the capital lettering on the anthrax envelopes. Karen