On 2018-04-04 19:12, Wol's lists wrote: > Different horses, different courses. I believe the indent was dropped > to save a keystroke, so why the double-space is there (requiring an > extra keystroke) I don't know. > > And why use secretarial style when you're typesetting? One is for > letters, the other is typically for books ... that's the trouble with > all this Artificial Stupidity - it blindly enforces rules that are > irrelevant (or even wrong!!!) for the current scenario.
I follow the double space rule when writing, and I find it helpful when text I'm reading (in fixed-size font - which is of course how I read email) is written that way. I didn't know it was "secretarial" - that's definitely a major drawback! ;-) -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. To reply privately _only_ on Usenet and on broken lists which rewrite From, fetch the TXT record for no-use.mooo.com.
