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Date:      Fri, 2 Jun 2000 09:08:33 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        Troy Settle <troy@picus.com>, Mark Blackman <tmb@sophos.com>, Stephen McKay <mckay@thehub.com.au>, Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@freebsd.org>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes)
Message-ID:  <20000602090832.R20158@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000601180144.A233@parish>
References:  <20000601111501.A11561@sophos.com> <FCEELIAEIIECDGKKJLMIKECDCAAA.troy@picus.com> <20000601180144.A233@parish>

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On Thursday,  1 June 2000 at 18:01:44 +0100, Mark Ovens wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 06:50:18AM -0400, Troy Settle wrote:
>>
>> Ok, so we're agreed.  Two spaces at the end of a sentence is what we're
>> taught in the US, UK, and AU.  Any one from another English speaking
>                    ^^^^
> Really? Not when I was at school, mind you it was, erm, late 60's,
> early '70's. Also ISTR Greg Lehey saying a single space was the AU way
> as well.

Yes, but I also said that that was by observation, and others have
contradicted this statement.

Greg
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