From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jun 2 18:12:52 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 DD4D337B92E for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 18:12:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA30137; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 10:41:50 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 10:41:50 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Brett Glass Cc: Terry Lambert , Ollivier Robert , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: Message-ID: <20000603104150.C29852@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000601162717.04482370@localhost> <200006021758.KAA23399@usr09.primenet.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000602165302.04939e50@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000602165302.04939e50@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 Friday, 2 June 2000 at 17:30:48 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > At 11:58 AM 6/2/2000, Terry Lambert wrote: > >> Please cite an English textbook on this, > > See > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0767903722/ref=ed_oe_p/002-9186126-2223249 > > .... Also > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201339854/ref=sim_books/002-9186126-2223249 > > and > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0226103897/wedwordcom/002-9186126-2223249 You're not seriously expecting people to go out and buy three books to check whether they bear out your claims, are you? If you know the contents, you should quote them. 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