When I was a newbie, I didn't realize that CAPITAL LETTERS were the aequivalent to shouting. I simply realized them as means of stressing something, like putting stars around a word, like *this way* .
internet has in some details a different culture of writing. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />
Especially smilesy - I don't know any Novel that incorporates smileys. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />