RE: Dumb question: is it "email", "Email", "e-mail", or "E-mail"

[Robert Hodgins <ehodgins -at- telusplanet -dot- net>]

On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 08:50 -0500, Dan Goldstein wrote:
> Hi Charles,
> 
> I agree with you that "email" can be easier for the writer.
> 
> Various posters have noted that "e-mail" can be easier for the reader.
> 
> Since my job is to make things easier for the reader, I'm sticking with
> "e-mail."

Talk about topical. Today's Dilbert cartoon (http://www.dilbert.com/)
had the term under discussion in it.

Maybe, it was the lack of caffeine in the system or the early hour, but
this writer (who prefers to use "email") did find "e-mail" easier to
read.

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