Punctuate your posts, says research

Focus Magazine, September 04:

Correspondence is taking longer to read because of poorly punctuated email, according to [url="http://www.hyperdictionary.com/search.aspx?define=optometrist"]optometrists[/url] at the University of Bradford. They discovered that missing fullstops and capital letters are behind the time-wasting trend.

View the full press release [url="http://www.bradford.ac.uk/admin/pr/pressreleases/2004/emails.php"]here[/url].

By not punctuating your posts on the forums, you are also wasting everyone's time. It is very easy to capitalise letters on a PC keyboard, so while laziness is excusable for SMS messages, it isn't for posts. Common habits which are very annoying include:

Multiple question marks/exclamation marks, where one will do. [url="http://www.EnglishForward.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=45318"]Example here[/url].
Converting the personal pronoun "I" to "i." [url="http://www.EnglishForward.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=45702#45766"]Example here[/url].
Dot overload. [url="http://www.EnglishForward.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=45762"]Example here[/url].
No spaces after punctuation marks. [url="http://www.EnglishForward.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=45163"]Example here[/url].
Minimalist punctuation. [url="http://www.EnglishForward.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=22748#31828"]Example here[/url].

Please add your own pet hates.