From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 1 15:30:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A80D37B7E9 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 15:30:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA04251; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 16:29:45 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000601162717.04482370@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 16:29:25 -0600 To: Ollivier Robert , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes) In-Reply-To: <20000601141807.A40162@keltia.freenix.fr> References: <20000601111501.A11561@sophos.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 06:18 AM 6/1/2000, Ollivier Robert wrote: >According to Troy Settle: >> The fact that some (most?) people don't use two spaces at the end of a >> sentence is probably due to ignorance, indifference, or laziness. I for > >Speaking as a non native english speaker, I must say that I learned in the >FreeBSD mailing-lists that two spaces were required at the end of a >sentence... That convention dates back to the time of hand-set type and has, of late, been abandoned. One space is now not only acceptable but preferred in business correspondence. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message