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In grammatically correct English, capital letters are used in the following situations:
- The first words of a sentence
- The pronoun "I"
- Proper nouns (the names of specific people, places, organizations, and sometimes things)
-Family relationships (when used as proper names)
- The names of God, specific deities, religious figures, and holy books (exception: Do not capitalize the nonspecific use of the word "god.")
-Titles preceding names, but not titles that follow names
- Directions that are names (North, South, East, and West when used as sections of the country, but not as compass directions)
- The days of the week, the months of the year, and holidays (but not the seasons used generally; exception: Seasons are capitalized when used in a title)
- The names of countries, nationalities, and specific languages
- The first word in a sentence that is a direct quote
- The major words in the titles of books, articles, and songs (but not short prepositions or the articles "the," "a," or "an," if they are not the first word of the title)
- Members of national, political, racial, social, civic, and athletic groups
- Periods and events (but not century numbers)
- Trademarks
- Words and abbreviations of specific names (but not names of things that came from specific things but are now general types)
(source: (url=http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/]Purdue University[/url])
Therefore, in your post, the u, y, t, h, e, i, n, t, e, r, n, e, t, c, o, r, r, e, c, t, i, o, n, s, h, i, r, t, a, n, d, c, a, l, l, i, t, a, d, a, and y should all be lowercase. (Although most style manuals initially suggested that "Internet" be capitalized, most, if not all, definitive style manuals have revised this suggestion over the past decade. An argument could be made, however, that I am incorrect when I suggest that the "i" in your post should be lowercase; it is possible that you were correct to capitalize it, based on your organization's style guide.)
