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Date:      Thu, 1 Jun 2000 15:14:08 -0500
From:      "gh" <grasshacker@linkfast.net>
To:        "Troy Settle" <troy@picus.com>
Cc:        <chat@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes)
Message-ID:  <002b01bfcc05$f5ae8020$2969a0d0@leviathan>
References:  <NIEBLEDADLBOBAJFKPHDGEGACAAA.troy@picus.com>

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> Ok...
>
> I was just summarizing what others were saying and tossing in my own .02.
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> Greg said one space.  Someone else from AU said 2.
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> Yet another person indicated that his British friends said 2.
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> I know 2 from my own typing class back in '84.
>

I believe (not to justify it) that the main argument is that manual
typesetting and typewriting are antiquated and as such using a two-space
convention is no longer necessary.

I happen to believe that such thinking is ignorant and lazy.
Blah.

Dan

> so...
>
> -Troy
>




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