I've given up. I'll follow whichever threading convention's already in use.
It's a stale issue. It's like complaining about people who write 'E-mail', confuse the Web with the Internet, and refer to their computer as the hard drive. There are more of them than there are of you, and they made more money off the Internet than you did.
Except that "e-mail" is the proper way to write it.
I won't follow whichever threading convention is in use. They want to be dicks, i can be a dick, too, and i've been a dick longer than they have, and i'm better at it.
"... the original spelling is 'email' (no hyphen), based on the technical roots of the term, as seen in the RFC documents for SMTP,[2] POP[3] and IMAP,[4] which use 'mail' or 'email.' " -- your pal, Wikipedia.
"E-mail" is a later construction built up by people (largely journalists and the ignorant) who felt the need to emphasize the electronic nature of their mail. For God knows what reason. Perhaps they discussed it by tele-phony or saw a story about the Inter-Net on their tele-visions.
I like to make a point of always doing the reverse in whatever thread is underway in order to surface the problem. Perhaps your certain well-known author is doing the same.
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It's a stale issue. It's like complaining about people who write 'E-mail', confuse the Web with the Internet, and refer to their computer as the hard drive. There are more of them than there are of you, and they made more money off the Internet than you did.
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I won't follow whichever threading convention is in use. They want to be dicks, i can be a dick, too, and i've been a dick longer than they have, and i'm better at it.
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"E-mail" is a later construction built up by people (largely journalists and the ignorant) who felt the need to emphasize the electronic nature of their mail. For God knows what reason. Perhaps they discussed it by tele-phony or saw a story about the Inter-Net on their tele-visions.
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