Five Year Style Guide Update

From: jeneane sessum [mailto:ewriter@bellsouth.net]
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 10:02 PM
To: 'Benjamin Lipsman'
CC: 'The Rest of the Internet’
Subject: Style Guide 3.0

Dear Benjy:

As an update to the style guide email of 3/15/99, please note the following changes:

Hyphens Are Old News

GOOD NEWS! We can now write email (not e-mail) and online (not on-line), which should save us approximately 3,330 keystrokes a year. (ught oh, could mean more layoffs!)

Internet/intranet

BREAKING FROM WIRED STYLE, we will keep Internet upper case because 1) It is sacred. 2) It is a proper noun. 3) For crying out loud, how will we tell it apart from intranet (which will remain lower case) when we’re only half paying attention to what we read anyway?

Other updates will be forwarded promptly.

-jeneane