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If memory serves me right, John Baldwin wrote:

> Recall that the Handbook is formally published as an actual book that will
> hopefuly be put on the shelf at your local bookstore.  With that in mind, usi
> ng
> formal English is quite appropriate.

Appropriate, yes, but not required, IMHO.  I seem to remember from my 
technical writing class in college that this could be (is?) something 
of a religious issue.  (Well, that's not what the instructor called it, 
but that's the translation into contemporary geek-speak.)

Bruce.



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