From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Aug 29 16:12:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sand4.global.net.uk (sand4.global.net.uk [194.126.80.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69D3C14DE4; Sun, 29 Aug 1999 16:12:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@globalnet.co.uk) Received: from pb8s10a06.client.global.net.uk ([195.147.218.185] helo=marder-1.) by sand4.global.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11LE7c-0002Pg-00; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 00:12:25 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.2/8.8.8) id AAA00435; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 00:01:51 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 00:01:51 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Ben Rosengart Cc: Matthew Dillon , Mike Pritchard , chris@calldei.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please review: rc file changes Message-ID: <19990830000150.B265@marder-1> References: <199908281738.KAA05273@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Ben Rosengart on Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 05:29:20PM -0400 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 05:29:20PM -0400, Ben Rosengart wrote: > [redirected to -chat] > > On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > I guess they don't teach manual typewriting classes any more :-) > > It *had* to be two spaces or you got seriously marked down! > > > > Two spaces has been burned into my brain since high school! (I wonder > > if I can sue?) . For proof, just look at all the postings I've > > ever made to these lists. > > > > I'm not nitpicking... I couldn't care less what other people do. But > > I think it's an amusing generational effect. > > I never took a manual typewriting class, but I was taught the same > convention. So I wouldn't call it generational[0]. > > [0] I was also taught not to begin sentences with "so". > ...or "and" or "but" > -- > Ben > > UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group > StarMedia Network, Inc. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message