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Subject:Re: e-mail?????? From:Michael Lewis <lewism -at- BRANDLE -dot- COM -dot- AU> Date:Wed, 28 Jan 1998 16:35:21 +1100
Smokey Lynne L Bare wrote:
> Well.....Three years ago we did a study on this when a spelling style
> guide was created for a technology forum. With five technical textbook
> justifications the winner was:
>
> ***** E-mail ****** E is cap'd all the time and (at that time) was used
> as a noun or adjective.
Now, now, Smokey. It's not that long since you upbraided me for
hyphenating "online" -- because it's not done that way any longer. Three
years is plenty of time for the email convention to have changed.
--
Michael Lewis
Brandle Pty Limited, Sydney, Australia
PO Box 1249, Strawberry Hills, NSW 2012
Suite 8, The Watertower, 1 Marian St, Redfern 2016 http://www.ozemail.com.au/~lewism
Tel +61-2-9310-2224 ... Fax +61-2-9310-5056
