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Post by Alan Palmer on Jan 16, 2012 10:50:10 GMT
Most of the replies here have mentioned how we were taught to write letters in our youth, <mumblety> years ago. Whether we like it or not, the usual ways of writing business letters have changed over the years. Most corporate letters nowadays leave out a comma after "Dear [name]," and "Yours sincerely,", although personally, I use them in my own correspondence.
I've just looked up our style guide at work and it specifically says, "Do not use punctuation after the greeting or the sign-off." In a similar way, punctuation is no longer used in addresses at the ends of lines. To quote our style guide again, " Postal addresses should be left-aligned and should have no punctuation at the end of each line."
That is, of course just one style; another style guide may prefer commas. What is important is that the style is followed consistently, whichever is chosen.
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Post by Sue M-V on Jan 16, 2012 15:03:55 GMT
"Tone Tome". It's a make of satellite navigator. It would be! Sue
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Post by Tone on Jan 16, 2012 21:24:48 GMT
>Two Tone?<No. But it was, for a while, a nickname applied to me. Just after I'd re-sprayed my motorcar back in the '60s. (Oi finks it were a compliment for me skill. ) Tone
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Post by Sue M-V on Jan 17, 2012 9:37:16 GMT
(Oi finks it were a compliment for me skill. ) Of course you do! Sue ;D
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Post by ltonpew on Dec 25, 2018 1:47:13 GMT
I am ltonser. I need help. What can i do it?
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Post by Dave on Dec 26, 2018 4:10:26 GMT
Sorry, I don't understand your question. Please elaborate.
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Post by Verbivore on Dec 26, 2018 7:31:21 GMT
Sorry, I don't understand your question. Please elaborate. Thanks, Dave. You saved me from making a more, er, pointed response. Happy Boxing Day (or whatever it is in CA).
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Post by Verbivore on Jan 30, 2019 8:47:03 GMT
I just deleted a post by guest LucindaVom – babbling on about cryptocurrencies. Nothing to do with language; no doubt a spammer.
There are so few of them these days, but recently two have slipped through. Sudden Spammer Death Syndrome Struck (SSDSS)!
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Post by Twoddle on Jan 30, 2019 19:41:58 GMT
It's bound to happen from time to time, but we know our Spam Monitors are always poised to leap into action.
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Post by Verbivore on Mar 10, 2019 5:55:11 GMT
It's bound to happen from time to time, but we know our Spam Monitors are always poised to leap into action. There's been a small swarm of the pests of late; I've deleted a couple per week over the past month – but they don't get much air before I bump them off. They seem always to go for the little-used threads rather than the current months'. Have any other spam monitors been finding a similar increase in spammers?
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Post by Little Jack Horner on Mar 11, 2019 10:14:48 GMT
I am grateful to the spam monitors but I am not sure who they are. Thank you all. They must work hard because I seldom see spam on this forum. 😀
who they are
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Post by Verbivore on Mar 11, 2019 11:12:56 GMT
I am grateful to the spam monitors but I am not sure who they are. Thank you all. They must work hard because I seldom see spam on this forum. 😀 Spam monitors are: Alan Palmer, Dave (San Jose), yours truly, and, I assume, Paul D as admin. Just doing our duty. Most spam seems to be posted during Northern Hemisphere sleep time, the posters perhaps expecting to not be caught before they've had the satisfaction of getting a bite. However, because here in the Antipodes I'm usually awake during "spam" time the unwanted posts usually last anywhere from minutes to a couple of hours at most (though I'm not claiming particular credit for that: it's just a matter of geography and time zones). Zero tolerance for spam(mers)!
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Post by Dave on May 8, 2019 6:40:33 GMT
I just removed a spam post on this thread, the first spam that I've had to remove for quite a while--Verbivore's doing a great job, or the spammers aren't interested in our low-traffic site: Only 10 different registered members of 109 have visited since Jan 1 (and Paul D was two of those (as member & admin)).
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Post by Verbivore on May 8, 2019 8:56:55 GMT
Thanks, Dave. From my observations the spammers come in waves: 1–2 per day at present, but other times one per week / 10 days / none for ages … . Owing to my time-zone advantage I catch many of the spam posts when they're minutes to an hour-or-three old. Just before this post I eliminated one that was 12 minutes old, and this was at about 18:50 Wed 08/05/19 AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time) so 09:56 London.
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