and the Navy still uses a lot of all-caps Courier. At this point I think they keep all-caps out of nostalgia. As a New Orleans evacuee I have come to exclusively rely on NOAA reports. Interestingly I'm now following Rita closely because Tulane's medical school was supposed to reform in Houston this Saturday. That's now postponed until 1 October. I'm also staying in College Station, which is expected to get some of the wind and rain. The NWS caps style is also re-inforced by the fact almost all military orders (pick any service) are created in this teletype format. There is a argument that is eliminates a degree of ambiguity, at the expense of readibility. In other words, a capital letter contains the same meaning as a lower case letter. There is no implied difference of meaning based on capitalization. But historically, it is based on telegraph and teletype styles. The format and ordering of the paragraphs can contain significance. In military communications there are generally headers and footers to tell you where you are in the message, what information to expect next, and that you have reached the end of the section or message. Assuming that you have the rosetta stone to decode often obtuse headers and footers. By the way, this subject is very topical to me because we are frequently driven to produce reports in powerpoint rather that word. I usually object to call a powerpoint presentation a report; prefering to call it a brief or presentation.