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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
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