From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 1 17:52:34 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 04FFF37BAA6 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 17:52:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA23385; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 10:22:11 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 10:22:11 +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: <20000602102211.K22978@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> <20000602090744.Q20158@wantadilla.lemis.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000601184749.04486b50@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000601184749.04486b50@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 18:48:15 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > 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. That wasn't the question. I don't have any recent text on business correspondence style, and I suspect you don't either. 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