ATTENTION - NOTICE TO ALL
From the
Navy Times:
ALL-CAPS MESSAGES ... no more
Call it the message read �round the world.
On May 8, the Navy�s personnel chief issued a policy directive likely unique in the annals of naval messages that came before it � a bulletin that featured lowercase letters.
For sailors who find it hard to get through all-caps messages or think that they READ LIKE YOU�RE BEING SHOUTED AT, your time has come: The Navy is shifting to a new message-routing system that is cheaper and easier to operate and has the side benefit of sending messages that are easier to read.
The ability to mix upper- and lowercase letters and special characters �makes the readability better for the folks that are actually monitoring in a chat room or reading messages off a portal site,� said James McCarty, the naval messaging program manager at Fleet Cyber Command who is overseeing the changes, which oddly were first announced in an all-caps dispatch.
A hangover from the early teletype machines which were uppercase only.
National Weather Service still issues its weather advisories in upper case.
Posted by DaveH at June 14, 2013 12:29 PM