Re: [Tools-discuss] Incredibly minor enhancement request

[Mark Nottingham <mnot at mnot.net>]

Hmm. My understanding is that most style guides* recommend "e-mail."

IIRC this is because there at one point was an Australian appliance  
manufacturer called Email <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_Limited>  
and there is concern about confusion (or even trademark issues,  
although I think that's a bit more tenuous).

Just as we'd like publishers to follow our technical standards, I'd  
submit that we'd do best to bow to theirs, unless we have a compelling  
reason not to.

Cheers,

* e.g., the Economist's <http://www.economist.com/research/styleGuide/index.cfm?page=1746394 
>. Unfortunately, I no longer have a copy of the AP style guide handy.


On 28/10/2009, at 4:13 AM, Spencer Dawkins wrote:

> The next time someone is bundling changes for xml2rfc ...
>
> xml2rfc generates the label "Email:", and the RFC editor changes  
> these to "EMail:" with capitalized "M".
>
> I'm scanning for diffs in a soon-to-appear RFC in AUTH48, and I'm  
> thinking the fewer automatically-generated text strings that the RFC  
> editor is going to change, the better.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Spencer
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