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Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 01:23:05 -0400
From: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca>
To: Greg Lehey <grog@wantadilla.lemis.com>
Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes)
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I am well aware that this has been discussed before.  I recall some
concensus that the two space is easier to read.  That wasn't really my
point, _HOWEVER_.

My point was that I had to read the same message over and over
repeatedly with only slight variations of wording and format, most
adding little to the originals from Kris and Frank (offlist).

It was pure coincidence (one assumes, anyways) that both of those two
used two spaces.  :)

On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 01:51:45PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> 
> IIRC we agreed to disagree in general on points of spelling and
> punctuation which differ from one country to another, even though
> we've agreed to stick to two spaces in the documentation project.  I
> think it's inappropriate to single people out because they choose to
> use a different but valid punctuation convention from the one you do.
> 
> In case you missed it, in England and Australia the convention is one
> space after a full stop.
> 
> Greg
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