In article >,
says...
>
> On 9/28/2016 7:08 PM, Bruce wrote:
> > In article >, ost
> > says...
> >>
> >> On Wed, 28 Sep 2016 17:48:11 -0400, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Wed, 28 Sep 2016 14:07:56 -0500, Sqwertz >
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On Wed, 28 Sep 2016 07:54:56 -0600, graham wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On 9/27/2016 10:15 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
> >>>>>> On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 21:42:49 -0400, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> My sentence contains no grammatical errors... 'should of' is
> >>>>>>> gramatically incorrect... actually a glaring indication that the
> >>>>>>> poster never made it past the 5th grade.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Thank you for the two examples of improper usage of ellipses. You
> >>>>>> even managed to spell them wrong!
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> Wrongly?
> >>>>
> >>>> The wrongest!
> >>>
> >>> INCORRECTLY, you ignoranus.
> >>
> >> Say the guy who can't even spell three dots correctly. Proper
> >> ellipses have a single space on each side of each dot.
> >
> > lol, nonsense.
> >
>
> Nope, true
> www.thepunctuationguide.com/ellipses.html
> Ellipses. An ellipsis is a set of three periods ( . . . ) indicating an
> omission. Each period should have a single space on either side, except
> when adjacent to a quotation mark, in which case there should be no space.

Merriam-Webster distinguishes between "ellipsis marks [ ? ]" and
"suspension points [ . . . ]".

http://www.dailywritingtips.com/in-s...-dot-ellipsis/

There is not one golden rule.