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Date:      Thu, 01 Jun 2000 16:29:25 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes)
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20000601162717.04482370@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20000601141807.A40162@keltia.freenix.fr>
References:  <FCEELIAEIIECDGKKJLMIKECDCAAA.troy@picus.com> <20000601111501.A11561@sophos.com> <FCEELIAEIIECDGKKJLMIKECDCAAA.troy@picus.com>

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At 06:18 AM 6/1/2000, Ollivier Robert wrote:
  
>According to Troy Settle:
>> The fact that some (most?) people don't use two spaces at the end of a
>> sentence is probably due to ignorance, indifference, or laziness.  I for
>
>Speaking as a non native english speaker, I must say that I learned in the
>FreeBSD mailing-lists that two spaces were required at the end of a
>sentence...

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.

--Brett Glass



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