If your bank sent you a statement and it was all in txt language, or you got a formal letter from someone and it was written like that, would you consider it rude? If so, why not a messageboard? Just because it's the Internet doesn't give a person the excuse to be lazy. Yes, you might just suggest I ignore people who do that - but if we always did that and never said anything then the whole board would descend into that crap. I'd rather this forum, which has been a great community through which many of us have made good friends, be presented in a way that would have new visitors think we are nice, intelligent people, and not lazy idiots.