Phone tapping was something we did in the 60's in my first job. We lived in a YMCA hostel with a single payphone and to save 4d (the price of a local call) you dialled zeroes and nines and tapped the other numbers. My girlfriend's number in the local village was easy, Harwell 300. On occasions a line engineer in the exchange would interrupt and tell at you for not paying.
On Sat, Feb 29, 2020, 08:50 Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: > Some do, some don't. I've seen good code from youngsters and awful code > from boomers. That's something to judge on a case by case basis. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf > of Doug [d...@bkassociates.net] > Sent: Friday, February 28, 2020 12:08 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: 2 Spaces after periods [was: RE: Rexx parse using period as > placeholder] > > Boomers code better anyway. > > > Doug Fuerst > 718.921.2620 (O) > 917.572.7364 (C) > d...@bkassociates.net > > ------ Original Message ------ > From: "Mitch Mccluhan" <0000005d889cebf0-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> > To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu > Sent: 28-Feb-20 12:05:35 > Subject: Re: 2 Spaces after periods [was: RE: Rexx parse using period as > placeholder] > > > Boomer? > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Tom Brennan <t...@tombrennansoftware.com> > >To: IBM-MAIN <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> > >Sent: Fri, Feb 28, 2020 9:49 am > >Subject: Re: 2 Spaces after periods [was: RE: Rexx parse using period as > placeholder] > > > >Boomer :) > > > >On 2/28/2020 7:40 AM, Mitch Mccluhan wrote: > >> I VOTE FOR 2 SPACES!!! Is that loud enough? It has ALWAYS made > reading, easier. > >> Mitch > >> > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Joel C. Ewing <jcew...@acm.org> > >> To: IBM-MAIN <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> > >> Sent: Fri, Feb 28, 2020 9:26 am > >> Subject: Re: 2 Spaces after periods [was: RE: Rexx parse using period > as placeholder] > >> > >> This is a sentence ending with one space. This is a sentence ending > with > >> two spaces. My email client is supposedly using a proportional, > >> variable width font, and the typical smaller width used for a space > >> character tends to make sentences merge together visually when only a > >> single space is used. Two spaces make the end of a sentence more > >> apparent visually, especially since with many fonts a "period" is > almost > >> indistinguishable from a speck of dirt on the screen. The improved > >> visual separation with two spaces is even greater on typical browser > fonts. > >> > >> I personally think the argument for a single space at end of sentence > is > >> BS, made up out of laziness by someone who has not yet needed reading > >> glasses. Setting off sentences with extra space was a long-established > >> practice with good handwriting, not something that originated because > >> typewriters had imprecise spacing. > >> > >> Yes, a single space at end of sentence may now be acceptable, but it is > >> aesthetically inferior. > >> JC Ewing > >> > >> On 2/28/20 5:38 AM, Joe Monk wrote: > >>> The rule now is 1 space after a period. > >>> > >>> Two spaces after a period was the rule on a typewriter, because the > fonts > >>> weren't proportional, they were monospace. This led to uneven spacing > of > >>> words on paper, so two spaces was the rule. > >>> > >>> Nowadays, on a computer, the fonts are proportional. For instance on a > >>> typewriter, the characters i and a take the same amount of space. But > on a > >>> word processor, i and a dont take the same amount of space. Thus, no > need > >>> for two spaces. > >>> > >>> This is a monospace font. > >>> This is a proportional font. > >>> > >>> Joe > >>> > >>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 2:59 PM Paul Gilmartin < > >>> 0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > >>> > >>>> On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 15:48:44 -0500, Steve Smith wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> Thanks for another reminder I'm "really old" :-). The rule, btw, > is two > >>>>> spaces at the end of a sentence. And I think it makes at least as > much > >>>>> sense for proportional fonts as mono. You can (and I do) have Word > check > >>>>> to make sure they're always there... > >>>>> > >>>> Specifically, not after titles: "Ms. Smith", "Dr. Jones:. Also > bad > >>>> places for > >>>> automatic linebreaks. > >>>> > >>>> -- gil > >>>> > >>>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > >>>> send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO > IBM-MAIN > >>>> > >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > >>> send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO > IBM-MAIN > >> > >> > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
