Re: e-mail or email?

Subject: Re: e-mail or email?
From: "Dave L. Meek's User Account" <dave -at- DISC-SYNERGY -dot- COM>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 10:39:26 -0800

>From netcom.com!vm1.ucc.okstate.edu!techwr-l Mon Jan 16 17:39:45 1995
>Message-Id: <199501170124 -dot- RAA00243 -at- netcomsv -dot- netcom -dot- com>
>Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 11:11:59 -0800
>Reply-To: Jan Boomsliter <boom -at- cadence -dot- com>
>Sender: "Technical Writers List; for all Technical Communication issues" <TECHW
R-L -at- vm1 -dot- ucc -dot- okstate -dot- edu>
>From: Jan Boomsliter <boom -at- cadence -dot- com>
>Subject: Re: e-mail or email?
>Comments: To: TECHWR-L%OSUVM1 -dot- BITNET -at- netcom -dot- com, bparks -at- HUACHUCA-EMH1 -dot- ARMY -dot- MIL
>To: Multiple recipients of list TECHWR-L <TECHWR-L -at- osuvm1 -dot- bitnet>

>(No, she didn't. She asked the questions, she didn't say, "In my book
>... (with E ....)")

>What is the purpose of the hyphen? neither "e" nor "mail" are
>abbreviations. I submit that this is a new term, like "fax," and
>that it should be written "email." No reason for anything else.

My AH College Dictionary lists "E-mail" as an abbreviation
"electronic mail," with the capitalized "E" as the more common
usage. It also lists "fax" as the shortened form of "facsimile."



















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