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Subject:Re[2]: the pound sign From:"Virginia L. Krenn" <asdxvlk -at- OKWAY -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU> Date:Fri, 11 Aug 1995 10:04:17 -0500
Why do you say that it's never a "number sign"? That's what
I've called it all my life and that's how it is identified in
_Handbook of Technical Writing_ (Brusaw, Alred, and Oliu).
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Subject: Re: the pound sign
Author: Jan Boomsliter <boom -at- cadence -dot- com> at SMTP
Date: 8/9/95 9:42 AM
Crosshatch.
And here's an interesting thing: it is NEVER a "number sign."
