The following is an excerpt from "Internet Email Protocols - A Developer's
Guide" by Kevin Johnson:
"This book uses 'email' when referring to 'electronic mail'. Some people
might feel 'e-mail' should be used instead; however, English has many word
combinations that get shortened over time. Remember that 'electronic mail'
was initially shortened to 'e-mail'. As this type of word becomes widely
used, eventually the hyphen gets dropped. In fact, there are many instances
where simply 'mail' is used. It is the author's opinion that this term is
used widely enough for the hyphen to go (*). In particular, this form has
become the standard, as it were, in the email industry. Go ahead and drop
it, it's just aa hyphen; you won't invoke the wrath of the hyphen police."
* For a second opinion, see
http://www-cs-staff.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html
HTH,
Howie Hamlin - inFusion Project Manager
On-Line Data Solutions, Inc.
www.CoolFusion.com
631-737-4668 x101
inFusion Mail Server (iMS) - the World's most configurable mail server
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cedric Wooding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 10:02 AM
Subject: email?
> Hiya all!
> I've been "listening" to all your comments on eating meat (human or
> otherwise), healthy stuff, formatting the hard drive at the wrong time and
> wot not.
> I have just one question, then I will absquatulate! my question is as
> follows:
> which of these is correct?
>
> e-mail, E-mail, email, e mail, E-Mail, or maybe even e.mail
>
> just wondering.
>
> cheers,
>
> Cedric Wooding
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.torchbox.com
> Tel: 01608 811870
> Fax: 01608 811988
>
>
>
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