On 05 11 2003 at 9:02 pm -0500, Mark E. Mallett wrote: >> This is pedantic, I know, but it's important to me: > >As one pedant to another... :-)
Ah, then, I can't resist jumping in either. :) >I would capitalize it, as it's a proper name for a specific thing. >It's "The Domain Name System" as opposed to "a domain name system." The thing is, it's not somebody's Domain Name System... it's the common domain name system. For example, we are replying to the an OpenSRS mailing list, whose name is not The OpenSRS Mailing List. Using the caps suggests that somebody has assigned That Name to it, and the question is, who did? The answer is, nobody really; it's a collection of things that have come to exist, much like the roads and highways that connect all of North America (not the Roads and Highways of North America). >Supposed to be two spaces between the end of a sentence and the >start of the next. Looks proper to me. Back in the days of manual typewriters and mono-spaced fonts, perhaps. These days, with justified text and word processors, it has fallen out of favour. (Having said that, I often use the double-space style myself.) -ben -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca
