From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 1 17:23:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from durango.picus.com (durango.picus.com [209.100.20.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63EE337B9A7 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 17:23:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from troy@picus.com) Received: from abyss [209.100.22.250] by durango.picus.com (SMTPD32-5.05) id AE0937F015C; Thu, 01 Jun 2000 20:21:29 -0400 From: "Troy Settle" To: Subject: RE: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 20:22:20 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 In-reply-to: <20000602090744.Q20158@wantadilla.lemis.com> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ** From: Greg Lehey ** ** On Thursday, 1 June 2000 at 16:29:25 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: ** > ** > 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? ** Probably biting off much more than I can chew here, but do you honestly expect Brett to have documentation? I'd imagine that his over-abundance of opinion leaves little room for documented facts. -Troy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message