Re: Is it good English to end a question with an exclamation mark?

Subject: Re: Is it good English to end a question with an exclamation mark?
From: Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>
To: Raj Machhan <raj -dot- machhan -at- gmail -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:09:21 -0500

From an advertising point of view, anything that works to sell product
is correct. Annoying errors, blinking text, ugly typefaces, upside-down
copy, fake ads--all of them have been tried.

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Raj Machhan wrote:
> ...
> Which one of the following sentences is punctuated correctly?
>
> 1. Have you logged on to www.xyz.com to send FREE SMS !!!
>
> 2. Have you logged on to www.xyz.com to send FREE SMS ?
>
>
> This sentence is part of a promotion designed to attract visitors to a
> website. The copywirter is sure that the first option is correct. Others,
> however, are not so sure about it.
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