'that anyone savvy enough to read Slate ...' should be able to write a simple filter for his e-mail. str_replace('. ','. ',$str); in PHP or str.replace('. '

'that anyone savvy enough to read Slate ...' should be able to write a simple filter for his e-mail. str_replace('. ','. ',$str); in PHP or str.replace('. ','. ') in Python. I know it's a rudimentary solution but it'll work if one can get so worked up over such trivialities.