From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 1 17:48:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32FD537B5BD for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 17:48:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA05626; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 18:48:20 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000601184749.04486b50@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 18:48:15 -0600 To: Greg Lehey From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes) Cc: Ollivier Robert , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000602090744.Q20158@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000601162717.04482370@localhost> <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" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 05:37 PM 6/1/2000, Greg Lehey 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? Check any recent text on business correspondence style. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message