SHOUTING; emphasis?

[Mai Kuha]

On 9/8/02 3:13 PM, RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:

> (...) It
> is clear from context that the writer was not "shouting" (whatever that means
> in a written medium)--he or she was typing all caps (for whatever reason). So
> to say, "Please don't shout!" is a peculiar utterance when the speaker was of
> course not REALLY shouting at all. (...)

Just to check, are you saying that an utterance does not count as shouting
unless the speaker/writer intended to shout?

-Mai