From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 1 3:14:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from viking.sophos.com (viking.sophos.com [193.82.145.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF17937B7B4; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 03:14:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tmb@tyne.sophos.com) Received: from tyne.sophos.com (tyne.sophos.com [193.82.145.132]) by viking.sophos.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6576F45C19; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 10:14:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: (from tmb@localhost) by tyne.sophos.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA11613; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 11:15:01 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from tmb) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 11:15:01 +0100 From: Mark Blackman To: Greg Lehey Cc: Stephen McKay , Tim Vanderhoek , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes) Message-ID: <20000601111501.A11561@sophos.com> References: <20000528135144.B15565@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200005311543.BAA03923@dungeon.home> <20000601095056.D16657@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000601095056.D16657@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 09:50:56AM +0930 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've not done any text analysis of e-mails to discern empirical usage patterns, however a quick poll of five of my British colleagues (I'm a "colonial") suggests that in Britain, two spaces is the rule taught in English and typing classes. I wouldn't be surprised to discover that a number of people writing e-mails these days a) completely ignore their teachers or b) never took any classes. On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 09:50:56AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > > I didn't say I was conventional :-) I use the two space convention > because I find it more convenient. But most text written in Australia > or England has a single space after the full stop. Period. > -- Mark Blackman,Internet Systems Administrator,Sophos Anti-Virus e-mail: tmb@sophos.com http://www.sophos.com US Support: +1 888 SOPHOS 9 UK Support: +44 1235 559933 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message