Thanks for your support over this whole caps thing. Sometimes I think people take themselves way too seriously!
It is not a question of "taking the fun out of it" or "taking things too seriously".
First, it is physiologically difficult for the human eye to read extended messages in all caps. A word or two in all caps is not a problem. This has been scientifically tested and proven.
Additionally, sending messages in all caps has been considered bad netiquette (etiquette on the 'net) since at least the late 1970s and early 1980s, back before that was an Internet-as-we-know-it, back where there was DARPANET (Defense Advance Research Projects Agency Network) and ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) and small electronic bulletin boards run out of people's homes on old, slow, computers with limited memory.
This was back when the only people on the electronic networks were in the government, in defense and computer oriented corporations, in university computer science departments, and computer nerds and geeks who often built their own computers. I remember those days, when there were no guis (gooeys = graphical user interfaces) which nearly all of us use today.
Finally, just as there are expectations of appropriate behavior when we are face to face with each other, there are also expectations of appropriate behavior in electronic communications. There are whole webpages devoted to netiquette. If you do a search on Google or your preferred search engine, you will find them. There might be some useful info in them.
