From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 1 16:38:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFB6037B9B2 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 16:38:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA22871; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 09:07:45 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 09:07:45 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Brett Glass Cc: Ollivier Robert , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes) Message-ID: <20000602090744.Q20158@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20000601111501.A11561@sophos.com> <20000601141807.A40162@keltia.freenix.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20000601162717.04482370@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000601162717.04482370@localhost> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message