netcop category
A) Netscape doesn't control Usenet so anything they put there is actually on
topic only by accident.
B) "Usenet etiquette" doesn't exist. Whether someone complies with what YOU
happen to think is right, or not, is purely up to the person. Thus, Usenet
is an anarchy.
C) Telling someone to comply to what you may think is right - eg, in this
case posting in all CAPS being considered not right - is being a NET COP.
Replying to them saying that it is considered bad taste and asking them if
they wouldn't mind NOT using all caps is an altogether different and polite
thing. TELLING them to conform is being a NETCOP.
Whether someone WANTS to post all caps or not is purely beside the point.
The truth is that they could post disgusting binaries here if they wished.
What gets posted on a private server is up to the owner of the server, in
this case MS. If they don't specifically tell you "Don't post all caps or
lose your access" and enforce it, then there is no reason for others to act
as if THEY owned the server, either.
What people arguing about this opposite to me forget is that the end of the
name in this newsgroup is "newusers" and they really need to keep that in
mind, be helpful and stop jumping on people. Are they so arrogant in their
knowledge, nowadays, that they forget their own first days or are they so
young they cant remember them?