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ALL-CAPS MESSAGES ... no more | Navy Times | navytimes.com
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.
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.
