On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 07:58:37 -0500, Snag wrote:
Stormin Mormon wrote:
(S. M. added lots of bracketed punctuation notes, eg as below)
"Snag" wrote ...

Not as good as my son does [do not put a space between the
word and the punctuation symbol]! He's decided to bite the bullet and
have a breaker box installed [do not put a space between the word and the
punctuation symbol], get rid of the fuses [do not put a space between
the word and the punctuation symbol].
(big snip)
We'll see where it's at when it's had time to stabilize a bit [do not
put a space between the word and the punctuation symbol].
--
Snag
Learning keeps
you young !

OK , so you don't like the fact that I put a space between the word
and the punctuation . Oh well , learn to deal with it . Been
doing it this way for years , and I'll KEEP doing it . If you don't
like the way I punctuate , killfile me .
--
Snag
Learning keeps
you young !

In reading your posts, I hadn't noticed your punctuation
spacing problem until S.M. mentioned it. Don't know how I
had overlooked it all these years, it's so glaringly obvious.
The first step toward fixing a problem like this is to admit
you have a problem. All those extra spaces take time to type,
so in the long run you can save yourself time by leaving them
out. Also, they make your text harder to read. In a public
medium like Usenet, where dozens of people read each post, it
is the responsibility of each writer to make his or her post
readable. The notion that other people should have to deal
with your spacing problem, instead of you fixing it, e.g. by
getting a new keyboard or learning how to fix what's broke,
is nonsense.

(On a different topic -- if the line before your sig consists
exactly of the three characters dash, dash, space, then good
newsreader software will recognize the sig lines as such, and
automatically not quote them in replies, thus resulting in
cleaner and more-easily-read threads.)

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jiw