Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 09:07:45 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes) Message-ID: <20000602090744.Q20158@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000601162717.04482370@localhost> References: <FCEELIAEIIECDGKKJLMIKECDCAAA.troy@picus.com> <20000601111501.A11561@sophos.com> <FCEELIAEIIECDGKKJLMIKECDCAAA.troy@picus.com> <20000601141807.A40162@keltia.freenix.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20000601162717.04482370@localhost>
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On Thursday, 1 June 2000 at 16:29:25 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > 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. Do you have any documentation to back this up? Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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