<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Gabriel Latjor NDow <<a href="mailto:md@gambian.com">md@gambian.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">August 22, 2013 11:52:46 AM GMT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Alan Levin <<a href="mailto:alan@vanilla.co.za">alan@vanilla.co.za</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">GABRIEL NDOW <<a href="mailto:md@gambian.com">md@gambian.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Re: [Chapter-delegates] Application to form a Chapter in Gauteng</b><br></span></div><br><div>Hi Alan,<br><br>Thanks for the netiquette pointer. I have made the necessary adjustment.<br><br>No, if you read my rationale for the support, you will see that I am more concern with the geographic and population size. I argued that if in the USA one can create several ISOC chapters (San Fran, NY, DC, etc...) for better impact, then why not in African countries like SA whose geographic and population size is huge? The same applies to Nigeria and some other countries.<br><br>Name sake has nothing to do with it. In fact I prefer to be called 'Latjor' which has a more profound and deeper meaning than 'Gabriel' (given to me from birth.<br><br>Cheers!<br>Latjor<br><br>On Aug 22, 2013, at 11:37 AM, Alan Levin wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Hi Gabriel,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">It's good to see that you support your name sake, that must be important to you. :)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I just wanted to point out that you may not yet have noticed in the short time you have been participating on this list, that your name is the only one that comes up in ALL CAPITALS. Amongst internet society it's generally considered less than ideal. If you hope to get more traction I suggest you change to sentence case.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Sincerely<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Alan<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>