THE "BUT" COMMA

[Dan L. Coleman]

Little diddy encountered in reading most anywhere: And tell me if I'm wrong, but when a sentence is started with the word "But," there should be no comma after it if no other comma is present in the sentence, as when setting it off with an adverbial phrase, etc.

Just cleaning the cobwebs today.

[dan petrosini]

This is a difficult subject to referee!  The writers ability to communicate and style should make sentence length invisible.   

[I. J. Parker]

Amen!