From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: quester@infionline.net (Harold Groot)   
   Subject: Re: THE SHAT won't be in Crap Trek 2   
      
   On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:02:15 -0600, "Dragon Lady"   
    wrote:   
      
   >   
   > wrote in message    
   >news:fja2579j6k5t4imiee7n7c8rsqoj5o93h9@4ax.com...   
   >> On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 07:02:13 -0700 (PDT), MITO MINISTER   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>On Jun 21, 8:45 am, "Bast"  wrote:   
   >>>> Steven L. wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Since the "trek" franchise is pretty much on life support at this   
   >>>> point,....it would be the humane thing to do.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>How so? It made more money than any of the other films and a sequel is   
   >>>in the works. That's called SUCCESS.   
   >>>   
   >>>STRA TREK is showbusiness. ENTERTAINMENT.   
   >>>   
   >>>Your opinions are worthless.   
   >>   
   >> You DARE call out someone's opinions as worthless and YOU have the   
   >> stupidity to write "STRA TREK"  ?   
   >>   
   >> Your spelling is worthless.  Oh, and educated people double space   
   >> between sentences.   
   >   
   >Um...educated people double space between paragraphs, not between sentences.   
      
      
   You two are talking about two different things there.  The first   
   person is talking about using two spacebar spaces after a period when   
   starting the next sentence in the same paragraph.  You are talking   
   about using two carriage returns before starting the next paragraph   
   (thus leaving a blank line between them).     
      
   Actually, this is more of a "Your Generation May Vary" thing than   
   anything else.  Back before, oh, 1985 or so people were taught to put   
   two spaces after a period when typing.  Somewhere along the way in the   
   Home Computer Age, however, this stopped being taught.  I suspect that   
   it was because a lot of people who were self-taught on a keyboard were   
   not using this convention, and the Powers That Be decided not to fight   
   what was obviously a losing battle.  Somewhere around dial-up modems   
   to reach a BBS, perhaps during the time when AOL had their period of   
   biggest growth, single spaces first became accepted.  Later on it   
   became the norm.   
      
   Of course, paragraphs used to start out indented.  Since this gave a   
   visual clue that a new paragraph had started, you didn't need to leave   
   a blank line in between them.  Somewhere along the way (still in the   
   computer age) the style changed FOR COMPUTERS of dropping the   
   indentation and using a blank line instead.  It's a bit easier to read   
   and there are essentially no penalties for taking the extra lines.   
   Books, newspapers and so on still use indented paragraphs (without the   
   blank lines) because using more paper means higher costs.   
      
   As you can see, I'm only partly committed to the new style.  I don't   
   indent paragraphs (using a blank line instead), but I still use double   
   spacebar spaces before I start a new sentence.  Again, that little bit   
   of extra white space makes it a little easier to read (IMHO).   
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