From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Aug 29 14:27:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from penelope.skunk.org (penelope.skunk.org [208.133.204.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27FB3151E9; Sun, 29 Aug 1999 14:27:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@penelope.skunk.org) Received: from localhost (ben@localhost) by penelope.skunk.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA84706; Sun, 29 Aug 1999 17:29:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 17:29:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Ben Rosengart To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Mike Pritchard , chris@calldei.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please review: rc file changes In-Reply-To: <199908281738.KAA05273@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [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". -- 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