Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 17:29:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Ben Rosengart <ben@skunk.org> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Mike Pritchard <mpp@FreeBSD.ORG>, chris@calldei.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please review: rc file changes Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908291727330.83893-100000@penelope.skunk.org> In-Reply-To: <199908281738.KAA05273@apollo.backplane.com>
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[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?) <GRIN>. 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
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