Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 00:01:51 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Ben Rosengart <ben@skunk.org> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Mike Pritchard <mpp@freebsd.org>, chris@calldei.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please review: rc file changes Message-ID: <19990830000150.B265@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908291727330.83893-100000@penelope.skunk.org>; from Ben Rosengart on Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 05:29:20PM -0400 References: <199908281738.KAA05273@apollo.backplane.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908291727330.83893-100000@penelope.skunk.org>
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On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 05:29:20PM -0400, Ben Rosengart wrote:
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> On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:
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> > I guess they don't teach manual typewriting classes any more :-)
> > It *had* to be two spaces or you got seriously marked down!
> >
> > Two spaces has been burned into my brain since high school! (I wonder
> > if I can sue?) <GRIN>. For proof, just look at all the postings I've
> > ever made to these lists.
> >
> > I'm not nitpicking... I couldn't care less what other people do. But
> > I think it's an amusing generational effect.
>
> I never took a manual typewriting class, but I was taught the same
> convention. So I wouldn't call it generational[0].
>
> [0] I was also taught not to begin sentences with "so".
>
...or "and" or "but"
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> Ben
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